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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The family wanted to arrange Gorga to an Italian girl from an old school family they knew , but he wasn’t with that. I think he may have been engaged to her for a bit but he rebelled against his parents and chose Melissa . This is the source of what you can say is the drama.

The Giudice family and Gorga family are not from Milan or Naples or Rome. They’re from very conservative villages in S. Italy . Teresa didn’t even sleep with anyone till marriage to Joe Giudice because she said her parents scared her about virginity tests and told her no husband would marry  her and keep her if she wasn’t one. Her whole life was following the rules and watching her brother , the stripper and alleged rapist, be spoiled by the family[/quote]

Teresa grew up in the US.  This is some real old school weird conspiracy stuff.  This is New Jersey, not 1940s Italian village.  [/quote]

DP. I don’t know anything about Teresa’s life, but I speak from the experience of a 1st generation Italian daughter and a LOT of this rings true. My cousins, who were all born and raised in Jersey and are very close in age to Teresa, had very similar experiences. All lived at home until the day they married. They were all virgins until their wedding nights. They worked at Bamberger’s as their after school and college jobs. Attended local colleges and lived at home with their parents the whole time. Were expected to cook and keep immaculate house and work (secondly to all else) and get married to a good Italian boy (not necessarily arranged) and have kids and never get divorced and do whatever their husbands told them to do. My family is from a different part of Italy, but similarly rural. It may as well have been the Middle Ages, culturally, when they slowly immigrated during the late 50s/early 60s. My aunt, who came to the US with her parents as a teen in mid 50s, was arranged to be married by her parents to her husband, who she’d known as a child but never dated/courted, BY PROXY, at 18 and he came over from their little village back in Italy to the US as her husband. She had a son within the first year of their marriage and spent the next 30 years in a miserable marriage while he had numerous mistresses, one of whom he eventually left her for and moved to Argentina with, once all their parents were dead. So I sympathize with Teresa and don’t blame her one bit for trying to please her parents and then her husband, including by signing whatever her told her to sign without question. Because that’s just what you were expected to do!

Also, weighing in on “Sprinkle Cookie-gate,” I blame Joe Gorga for not explaining to Melissa what a culturally inappropriate move bringing grocery store-bought cookies to his family’s house was. Melissa had no way of knowing, but Joe should’ve warned her that it would be received as offensive and disrespectful. Homemade or from an authentic Italian bakery ONLY, or it’s a diss. Joe Gorga is the root of all the drama, always. [/quote]

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