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No idea, but my daughter will need to find someone willing to live with BOSSY, and [b]my son will need to find someone willing to take over scheduling/organizing/socializing, since he's a daydreaming introvert with ADHD. [/b]

I have 10 cousins. Besides me, only one of the ten is married with kids. Another two are married but no kids. The rest are in relationships but not married and no kids. We're all 35-50. It's weird.[/quote]

No, your son will have to figure out how to hold it together.    Women are looking to marry, not adopt grown men.[/quote]

No one is perfect. Not even you, PP.[/quote]

I love how they gloss over the bossy daughter and just straight to the problems with the son (even considering that the boy has a diagnosis!)

Sure,  he'll need to learn how to organize his life.

But daughter will need to learn how to compromise and relinquish some control as well.  To be honest, that's going to be a harder change for the daughter than the son.[/quote]

PP.  I said it especially because the boy has a diagnosis.  This is what his mom sounds like: my son has a problem with X activity of daily living, so he needs to find a spouse to do it for him.  Is the boy going to view the hypothetical spouse (most likely a wife) in question as a human or just an instrument to solve his needs?

If this makes me ableist, so be it.[/quote]

Fair enough.  My perspective is that the boy's diagnosis was viewed as something to address and remediate.  He'll likely get the resources and tools to do that.

The girls character flaws are viewed as a personality trait.

When in reality, they are equally as dangerous to a relationship.  She won't be looking for a partner; she'll be looking for a minion to boss around[/quote]

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