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[quote=Anonymous]diplomatic[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No and I would not have married someone who was not the same race as I.  Also, neither of us would have married someone who didn't have the same socio-economic background.  [/quote]

I think the socio-economic status one might be a more interesting discussion.  why do you say this?

I'm curious because I never really thought much about it, but it seems that most of the men I dated (and the man I married) have been of similar backgrounds.  Not that I didn't mix and mingle with people of higher and lower status than my own family, I just tended to find myself dating people of similar status.  Even shared the same types of jobs - teachers/educators, many of them.  It certainly wasn't a conscious choice.[/quote]

When you're young and in the throes of the insanity of love, you tend to believe that there really is "happily everaftering."   Once married, you soon realize that there is a lot more to a marriage than love and in my experience, I think it was easier because we did have the same background.  If one of us had been lower socio-economic and the other of a much higher socio-economic background, it would have created some big problems.  My father was an Air Force general and his father was a Foreign Service officer, as was my DH.  Being the daughter of a general gave me the knowledge of what was expected in my role as the wife of someone representing the US.  For some people, this might not have made a bit of difference, but to both of us, it was important.  Like it or not, most women have more duties re entertaining, children, taking care of a house and learning from my mother was an education that one had to learn by watching and doing these things.  [/quote]

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