Parents Choose your Friends/Husbands/Wife?

my mom and dad let us choose our friends. we invite them all every once in a while so my parents will know them too. they also play games and have a chit chat with my folks.

My parents have never chosen my friends or partners or former husbands for me. I would never want them too. I am perfectly capable of choosing my own pelationships. I know who I am compatable with, there is no way my parents could know who I could love.

My parents have never determined my friendships or relationships; they really don't have any control over those things, or many other things in my life. As a result, I was always very independent, even as a child. I do, however, have friends whose parents already have arranged marriages for them; it's part of their culture, and those friends also feel they'll lose their parents' respect or are generally afraid of their parents if they disagree with them.

they didnt bother to know about it... they just giving me a little advice..

lol sometimes i feel lyk my parents are really forcing to do me things. but i think sometimes am i against my parents my tradition and am i insulting someone choosing mah way of lyf. itz not good to hurt pplz to make ur decisions so we must care about our parents also sometimes but not obeying them blindly. i neva asked my father whether i should make a friend or not.. lol