Advice Needed for Romance with a German Man

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This has been a great, funny read. I come from a culture that is almost a polar opposite. A German guy and I … we'd probably kill each other, at least figuratively, out of frustration!

You must be Latina. I'm very Germanic by ethnicity and once had a friend who was from south of the equator. Quite difficult to understand each other at the beginning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems a lot of German men and women are neurotic but maybe that's true everywhere. The number of people confirming the fastidious anal (no pun intended) punctual stereotype is surprising. Normally stereotypes don't get confirmed so unanimously. I cannot comprehend punctual people. I actually find it rude when people arrive at my house on time for a party or dinner invitation LOL since I'm always running late.

I am very anal and punctual but am married to an Italian. Why we ever thought we would be suited long term, I have no idea. Italians' ideas of hard work (lol), sacrifice, etc. is pretty laughable to a German. They are fun though!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two funny stories about my husband's German relatives when we were traveling in Germany:

One of them (in her 40's) told us she could never live in the US because of what we did to the American Indians!!!

Another one (in her 70's) told us that German never should have "gone to war with the Jews" because it made the whole world hate them.

Ha! Classic!

[Anonymous]

My German grandparents considered a person's inability to withstand cold temperatures to be a sign of weakness of character and potential moral insufficiency. I know it's sounds like such an exaggeration, but really, they were semi-serious about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My German grandparents considered a person's inability to withstand cold temperatures to be a sign of weakness of character and potential moral insufficiency. I know it's sounds like such an exaggeration, but really, they were semi-serious about it.

+1

[Anonymous]

In my grandmother's day, a german woman would make jam or preserves from raspberries or blackberries or blueberries from bushes she had cultivated herself. No pectin would be used. It would be boiled in mason jars and sealed with paraffin and stored in the 'root cellar'. This was back in the 80's when Helmut was Chancellor and we danced in Boogie Vunderland!

[Anonymous]

Op we are all very jealous and would like you to hook us up so that we can have german lovers on the side.
Your boyfriend must have friends. You cannot deny us after all we have practically given you all of our german man secrets

[Anonymous]

oh, die schwienhaxe, drool….

[Anonymous]

my parents are Italian immigrants and DH's mom is a german immigrant.........but we are both much more American because out parents all immigrated themselves as children so they straddle the culture and we sort of just have the view from the next generation.

When I told my mother's father (also in the US) that I was marrying a 1/2 german man he said "ah good, they are smart. very smart. we are good looking, but they are smart" which I found adorable for some reason.

The matriarchs in DH family are a touch cold/stoic "raise your kids to go out and leave you" kinds but that could come from anywhere.

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They like their eyewear! Really, I make a point to see what eyeglasses the always-fashionable Germans are wearing now to know what I might buy in two years!

I'm from Irish-German grandparents, both immigrated here as young adults; collectively, my family is large, loud, boisterous, passionate, prone to mood swings and alcoholism, garrulous and oddly insular. Good times. YMMV but my family is full of hotheads!

[Anonymous]

Would you like him to unpimp your auto?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1MNEqCr748

German engineering in the house!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would you like him to unpimp your auto?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1MNEqCr748

German engineering in the house!

Time to unpimp die auto…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I met a German a woman a few years ago who told me this: "German men . . . " eye roll, "they would rather eat chocolate than have orgasms!"

Haha! I have no idea what she was talking about but it was hilarious. She said it with deep scorn in her voice.

Strangely enough this was the experience I had with the one German guy that I dated. He was interested in sex (and oddly kinky), but he wasn't all about the orgasm...

[Anonymous]

Iived in Europe, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, and England. All things considered, American men though deeply flawed, are preferable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

MikeL wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Germans regard sex as an athletic challenge. They are vigorous yet ruthlessly efficient lovers.

Very true.
Be prepared for some anal sex.

Yup. Surprise! Buttsecks!

huh?