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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's funny that old people think that women shouldn't get married until after 30, so controlling [/quote]

I think my kids should get married whenever they feel like they’ve met someone they want to marry. If that’s at 22, so be it. [b]But I’m getting the sense that the posters who are most supportive of young marriages are the controlling ones. These are the parents who have carefully controlled their kids’ friendships since preschool, making sure they only ever mix with the “right” families. The marriage to the appropriate partner is essentially what they’ve been building up [/b]to.[/quote]

I mean, this sounds “controlling” to you but it sounds smart to me?  After a certain age we know that kids’ peers have more influence on them than their parents.  Trying to make sure your kids interact with kids whose parents share your particular values just seems like common sense.

Of course I want my kid with an appropriate partner- don’t you??  I mean, be honest with yourself, would you be happy to be mother of the bride at Lana del Ray’s bayou wedding?  I would not.[/quote]

Can you all conceive of real relationships without comparing to celebrities?

And it doesn’t just sound controlling, it is controlling. I trust my kids to figure what an appropriate partner means to them. Just as both my parents and my IL’s did for my husband and me. If our parents had exerted any kind of control on the type of people we married, we probably would have ended up with very different people, and we would have been miserable.[/quote]

Celebrities and rich influencers are the Generation Z trendsetters. Trends spread like wildfire on TikTok and Instagram. Millie, Sophia Ritchie, and Joey King have over 100 million followers. If you don’t think young people are influenced when they see these gorgeous weddings and the young rich wife/mom aesthetic you are in denial. The wisest college kids are dating to marry and are repelled at the idea of being unmarried and childless at 30 — or using an app to meet a husband.[/quote]

Pretty sure the wisest kids out there aren’t using Instagram influencers as their role models! This made me giggle. [/quote]

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