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[Idea circulated at my lunch table today]
Online dating websites should have an area where you describe your mother, in addition to your descriptions of yourself. This enables potential responders to evaluate the prospects/dangers of dating you, and ultimately possibly marrying you, with greater
detail.
Leave this section blank at your own risk, as viewers may assume the worst...
(Sorry if this topic is offensive in any way: I realize fathers-in-law may be bad also, I just stuck with the mother-in-law cliche in this post.)
In that neighborhood
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[normzone, Nov 24 2006]
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One of the hallmarks of a successful long-term relationship is where both partners have cut their ties to their parents as children, then reopened them from within the
relationship, as a committed couple. |
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In fact, most of the divorces I've seen recently came about because or both partners failed to do this. |
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So if someone is requiring you to get along with their parents as a prerequisite, run the other way fast. (The parents should be respecting their child's choice and getting along with *you*, to clarify.) |
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The description given would probably tell a lot more about the writer than their mother (in a Norman Bates type way). |
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My wife's mum is coming to stay for a whole month this winter. Depending what mood I'm in, I'm either looking forward to a wonderful opportunity to see a close relative again, or helplessly awaiting the arrival of an Exocet missile. |
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We get on well but can't help winding each other up now and then; in many ways we're too similar. I'm not sure what description my wife could have written that would have foreseen that. Not that it would have affected any 'decision' to date. |
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My grandmother always told me, you can tell by the amount of respect a man gives his mother, if he's worth dating. Like [boysparks] said, what you say/write about others reveals more about you than it would the other people. Very wise. |
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