only in the countries where women are barred from doing shit all except cook and make babies.
it's a new era, clair. People hitch up because they like each other, or they're pretending to for the other half's power/money. And you're allowed to see more than one guy before you make your decision. No one's got a rush on it either, and if you fuck up the first time and marry a dud, you get a divorce and try again.
My word! Goodness, that is certainly a new era indeed.
[ She's considering this now. Mostly she likes the part about women being able to do more than cook and make babies. ]
I suppose it would allow one a great deal more freedom to determine the course of one's own life. My parents never once disallowed me anything I wished to do, and I am certain that would extend to my choice in husband! [ Also, she would steamroll them anyway. ] But I knew others who were not nearly so fortunate. To think that their hearts would have been so much simpler to follow in a world such as yours. And here as well, I suppose. I do notice that the prevailing attitude here is similar to the one you just expressed.
not to knock your background, but it's sometimes simpler to take the ceremony out of it all. People still make plenty of bad choices but at least they're their own, and no one's coming around shaking a stick at them if they try to leave.
Ah, the little symbols! How very lovely. I must thank you for your assistance, Rich. This has been truly enlightening! To think that courtship takes such a different form than the one I knew.
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people just started laying off all the reservations is all. what goes on between a man and a woman is nobody's business but their own.
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Need you not worry about bloodlines and alliances? The kinship between families that are created by matrimony?
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it's a new era, clair. People hitch up because they like each other, or they're pretending to for the other half's power/money. And you're allowed to see more than one guy before you make your decision. No one's got a rush on it either, and if you fuck up the first time and marry a dud, you get a divorce and try again.
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Goodness, that is certainly a new era indeed.
[ She's considering this now. Mostly she likes the part about women being able to do more than cook and make babies. ]
I suppose it would allow one a great deal more freedom to determine the course of one's own life.
My parents never once disallowed me anything I wished to do, and I am certain that would extend to my choice in husband! [ Also, she would steamroll them anyway. ]
But I knew others who were not nearly so fortunate.
To think that their hearts would have been so much simpler to follow in a world such as yours.
And here as well, I suppose. I do notice that the prevailing attitude here is similar to the one you just expressed.
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Does this guy you're taking out have a name?
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Oh, no!
Rather, I have not been informed of it yet.
I am given to understand that this is called a "blind date."
Is that not so very intriguing?
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Whoa now! How bold! How daring! What a test of tenacity! You sure you're up for it?
After all, it could be ANYONE.
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As you've said, should he fall short of my expectations, then I am more than capable of extricating myself.
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Move forward, Young Clair. You may proceed with the next step on the Road to Romance.
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I must thank you for your assistance, Rich. This has been truly enlightening!
To think that courtship takes such a different form than the one I knew.
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[ You can teach a medieval dog new tricks. ]