Prove it. |
"Sit down, my dear. I have something important I want to discuss with you. Here, have a beer. It might help you relax. Your father and I want to be sure you have all the information you need to make an informed decision about your future. You could marry for love -- plan A -- with the understanding that the spark will inevitably die and you will be left with a passionless marriage during which your DH will either try to pursue sex at any and every opportunity while you resent it, or he will resent you for withholding. Either way you can't win -- and it's not your fault the interest in sex will die. How many times can you look forward to having sex with the same man over and over, while thinking about all the chores he refuses to do, all the childcare decisions you are forced to make without any input, all the vacation plans you've had to make over the years with his mother -- yes, you will be dealing directly with HIS mother, for HIM -- and still expect to enjoy it? If you're lucky he won't stray, he'll just sulk. Then again, in some instances you may consider yourself lucky if he does stray. But that's a subject for another night. Then there's Plan B -- you marry Prince Charles. You start out where you will be in about ten years' time with your "DH for love," only you will be a princess, famous and beloved the world over and eventually the Queen. You can sleep on the decision. What, made up your mind already? You're marrying Prince Charles? Congratulations, my dear. Despite your lack of "real" education, you are wise beyond your years. Here, let me light that cigarette for you. You are a grown woman, after all." |
DP. What a dumb standard. I can’t even personally prove Temple Grandin is autistic. |
Who is supposed to be saying all this? Diana’s mom that dipped a decade before she came of age? |
What other option did she have? She has no skills or career. |
She was 19 and he was an heir, much older and experienced woman has done it for a spare. Joining England's royal family means you are forever special. Do you think Dodi's dad would've been so keen on his son to marry Diana if she was still teaching kids in nursery school. |
Maybe? Her dad was still an Earl. |
If Dodi had even noticed her. |
She's still married to her husband but don't let that get in the way of your fantasies. |
^ William’s fantasies. |
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Wow, I didn't know so many people victim-blamed Diana. Kudos to those of you who stood up for her and recognized that she was groomed and had no idea who she was outside institutional brainwashing.
God, when I was 19 years old I didn't know jack about men or the world. Yeah I could legally vote, and I had a better education than Diana did, but I was completely mentally enslaved by my narcissistic, UMC parents. (Imagine how much more controlling and narcissistic the truly upper-class Spencer family was...not to mention, Diana knew the Queen and the BRF from her little childhood.) It took me YEARS of therapy, a terrible relationship with a terrible man, and cutting off my abusive mother before I could wake up from the brainwashing. I had education and freedom on my side that Diana didn't have...and the underrated advantage of anonymity, as I'm a happily unknown member of the public. Can you imagine doing this with the eyes of the world on you? Diana was actually ready to end her engagement once she found put that her beloved fiance was seeing Camilla, but her family guilted her and pressured her into going through with the wedding. She had no one in her corner and no one to confide in, and she had untreated mental health issues. Again, what chance did this poor girl have? |
So you think a better scenario for her would have been marrying a run of the mill philanderer, rather than a prince? She got to live the dream. Shocker, it wasn't what it was stacked up to be. Most people live lives of disappointment. She did it as a royal. Bravo to her family if they pusher her into that. |
| I have much more respect for Charles than I ever had for QEII. Thank goodness that woman finally died. |
Lol. What? Why is your assumption that everyone has to marry a philanderer of some kind? Also she was an aristo you’re acting like she would be marrying a plumber if it weren’t Charles. |
So as an aristocrat you think marrying the prince of england wasn't the ultimate for her? Of course it was. She didn't have to be pressured into it by her evil family. BTW, the "brainwashing" the PP describes could also be called "raising a child." That's what parents do, unless they're free-range, which most kids are not. |