Spyke
lemmy.world

Everyone knows Disney's movies are 100% accurate depictions of reality

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You may be sarcastic but too many ppl actually believe this.

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feddit.it

1 - they are dog people. They probably married just because the dogs liked each others.

2 - it's a cartoon.

3 - it's just a fucking depiction of two people randomly meeting, it's implied that they hit it off stellarly and, yes, people do MAD CRAZY things such as... marrying a person they are in love with.

4 - bestiality.

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tetris11reply
lemmy.ml

One of these is not like the other. My bet is number 2.

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lemmy.world

Don't forget the rampant domestic abuse that frequently came from the person you signd a life long contract with. Easy my ass

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Jaxreply
sh.itjust.works

Why would any of that context matter to a 4channer?

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They did not. And even then, so darn many boomers think it's normal to dispise your partner you'd almost think they're a bunch of losers

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lemmy.ml

Conan O'Brian meeting his wife:

https://people.com/tv/who-is-conan-obrien-liza-powel-obrien-wife/

"Then I left the room after this 20-minute conversation with only her. " After joking about having kids together during this initial conversation, the two exchanged information and began dating. In January 2002, the couple tied the knot.

So it happens, it just helps if you're tall and ginger.

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No one dreams about the guy they have to apologize for after you met them

Have you ever been on planet earth? That's sadly false in many instances.

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Damagereply
feddit.it

I mean, Conan O'Brien isn't exactly beautiful

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"Don't be ugly" is definitely helpful physically, but vital intelectually and emotionally.

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i’m a 4 on a good day. Only dated once, she broke up with me, so I kinda accepted that I’m just not meant to have a partner.

1 year later I met a nice lady at a birthday party I wasn’t exactly invited to, we talked, yaddayadda, 12 years later we are still together.

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Hikermickreply
lemmy.world

I was just making a joke, but don't doubt that you're right. It's a tough thing to measure as people aren't always honest. Like if somebody took a poll in 1986 asking folks if they smoked weed, paranoia might cause smokers to say no

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Oh, totally. Just like to bring up that our grandparents/great grandparents were getting nasty even before widespread use of birth control, etc. Young folks today are having a lot less sex, or so I've heard, largely due to difficulties finding partners, stress, etc.

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Lol, poor Anon thinks a Silent Generation meetcute in a cartoon is Boomers IRL.

Awwww....

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My grandparents got married because my grandfather left his car keys in his coat on the rack by the door of a diner and someone grabbed his coat.

Apparently while they waited in the diner for a friend to pick them up he asked my grandmother if they should get married and she said
"Sure."
3rd date. It was just something to do back then.

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lemmy.world

101 Dalmatians came out in 1961, these characters would be a part of the Silent Gen, or the Greatest Gen.

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Not a boomer, but here's how it worked for me:

  1. Meet at party, hit it off, and exchange numbers
  2. Text for a few days
  3. Date for a couple months
  4. Due to cruelties of hard to change plans, date long distance for a year
  5. Get married

Still together after 10+ years. We're not all that different from the cartoon, and if we didn't have the forced separation, we probably would've gotten married sooner.

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Lka1988reply
sh.itjust.works

That's basically how my wife and I met. Except we were never exclusive because she was a really good friend and I didn't wanna fuck that up. We ended up going our separate ways when she went off to college... We reconnected platonically years later, and then realized we were both getting divorced at the same time. One thing led to another, and we've been married for almost 2 years now.

We joke that if we had been exclusive, we would have a 20 year old already.

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I'm happy for you! 😀

Friendship is the most important ingredient IMO, because a good friend is willing to change for the other, as well as look past deficiencies that don't matter.

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She's easily the kindest, most loving, empathetic, and supportive person I've ever met. And the best part is that when I finally told her my feelings (after we reconnected), they were reciprocated immediately, much to my shock and amazement haha.

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ani.social

My former boss had a whole church community arrange a meeting between him and a woman, just so his parents could tell her parents what he thought of her. The two would eventually marry. It really was that easy back then. And yes they’re still happily married for reasons beyond my understanding.

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ddashreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

I'm going to assume if you arrange 1000 marriages a few are definitely bound to work out. For the rest though...

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

I can see the logic. The realities of day to day life and managing a household together are a considerably larger presence than most people realize until they're shoulder deep into adult life.

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For context, see research by Myers, D., 1993 (which I can't find a link to at the moment) about differences in satisfaction in couples in India in arranged marriages and couples in Amerikkka in marriages of choice, and compare it with the later research Myers, 2005.

More specifically to your statement about auntie zeroing in on something, see MacDonald & Ross, 1999.

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I didn’t bother going into details. It wasn’t an arranged marriage, the two were only arranged to meet. They chose to pursue a relationship entirely on their own.

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Rakonatreply
lemmy.world

Odds are if a church was involved, one or both are gaslighted into believing they are meant to be married that other person for better or worse, and regressive enough subculture/community that finds divorce abhorrent for any reason (other than the man could have a younger bride)

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lemmy.world

Most countries where arranged marriages are still a thing so have that backwards religious view on divorce though.

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I'm not suggesting another cultuur or religion is backwards, only that their views on divorce often are. The result of these views often is that women get stuck in abusive marriages and have no way to get out. I know people who are in arranged marriages. Some of them are happy, but the ones that are not are stuck.

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Why would you ever want to meet someone and get married so quickly? Are you more interested in the appearance of what you consider to be a successful life, rather than having a life partner?

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lemmings.world

This is like one step above the brainlets trying to retvrn to 50s advertising campaigns as though they were real life.

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Anon needs to start crashing into women at the park

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