Would you marry someone who didnt get along with your parents at all?
By YoungInLove
@YoungInLove (1254)
Canada
March 15, 2009 9:33pm CST
So i was recently watching an mtv showed called "Engaged and Underage" where really young couples get married and they follow the couple a few weeks before and after the wedding. Anyways, the episode I was watching was dealing with "conflicts of interests" between the parents and the bride and groom. Bride hated grooms mom and brides dad hated groom. It was kinda sad actually watching the way they talked to eachother. Which makes me think, can you honestly marry someone that can't stand your parents or your parents cant stand? I mean your going to have to deal with all the christmases and holidays where they will have to be in the same room for periods of times. You wouldnt want it to be a battle everytime your parents wanted to visit. what would you do. Would you leave someone you loved or just deal with it?
4 responses
@gitfiddleplayer (10362)
• United States
16 Mar 09
Its called "leave and cleave" for a reason. There are lots of people who don't get along with their inlaws, MTV just looks for people to exploit on that front. Remember, there is a difference between in laws and out laws, out laws are wanted.
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@YoungInLove (1254)
• Canada
16 Mar 09
So you can honestly say that you wouldnt min dif your fiance/husband snapped and disrspected your parents all the time because he didnt like them? and youd fuclly support him, even though hes hurting your parents? Personally, if I loved someone and he didnt necessarily like my parents it would really hurt me, but if he actually outright disrespects them everytime he sees them, then i woulnt want to be with a guy like that anyways
@gitfiddleplayer (10362)
• United States
16 Mar 09
There is a line that you must establish, I don't speak bad to her family and she doesn't about mine. There is no room for disrespect if it disrupts a marriage. But I think the show you were talking about it kids getting married, heck, they are still pretending to be other people and there is a struggle between families because of the situation.
@ihearttinytim (614)
• United States
16 Mar 09
This is very true, too. Once a cuople is married, they become each other's responsibility; they worry about each other -not about what their parents think. The bible passages are Gensis 2:24, and also Matthew 10:7
@ihearttinytim (614)
• United States
16 Mar 09
First of all, they were way too young to be getting married in the first place! Secondly, parents of minors have to sign a consent form for the minor to get married legally. So, with that in mind, if the parents signed the consent forms for the two minors to get married, then no one should have any complaints at all. If there was such a problem, they could have simply refused to sign the consent form. What is the problem with the bride and her dad, anyway?
I think every parent feels that no one is "good enough" for their son or daughter to be partnered with. If everyone did not marry someone because their parents disapproved of their selected mate, weddings would not exist. The parents need to lighten up and get over themselves, because, at the end of the day, they will only make things harder on their own son or daughter - not for the intended person - the potential mate, because they will be placing their own flesh and blood right in the center of all the confrontation, and the son or daughter will feel like they have to choose sides, and this is unfair to them. Plus, the parents are not the ones who will have to live with their child's parnter. The son or daughter will.
@ihearttinytim (614)
• United States
16 Mar 09
I also would like to add that the whole "no one will ever be good enough" scenario that every parent feels is also a form of controling behavior.
@YoungInLove (1254)
• Canada
16 Mar 09
well no offence lol the ages had nothing to do with the post, im just saying that was what the show was about, they technically werent udnerage so the whole consent thing is irrelevant.
The whole point was just to see if you would stay with someone one if they didnt like your parents. I wouldnt be able to, it would hurt me to see my parents upset, any guys who cares about me should know that and go along with it. Id like to hope that people woluld learn to put their differences aside because of love, and keep anyhting they may think to themselves, just out of respect.
@ihearttinytim (614)
• United States
16 Mar 09
But my whole point is no, I would not break up with a partner just because my parents did not approve of them. A lot of times, parents want to use the "approval" thing to control their son or daughter's actions, and this is unfair. If my parnter were cheating on me and treating me like dirt, and my parents disapproved, I suppose I would give it some thought, but then again, love is blind. A lot of times, if someone is in an unhealthy relationship and is being harmed, and the parents chime in, then it is not a case of the parents trying to be controling; it is a case of the son or daughter being harmed to come to the realization themselves, and make the decision to get out. Either way, it is up to the son or daughter to decide who their parnter is.
Luckily, for me, I am engaged to a lovely man who holds a PhD. in Quantum Physics, who is outoging, and fun, and loves me for me, and visa versa, and shares the same Christian beliefs I have. However, my parents are control freaks. No one was good enough for me. Every time they would meet one of my "potentials," he was not good enough, and they would constantly nag and pick at different things about him that they did not like. After a while, the nagging and nit-picking gets really stale, and it eventually corrupts an otherwise healthy relationship. It is as if parents realize that if they critisize long enough, it will wear on the couple and they will break up. Eventually, the son or daughter feels aggravated, always having to hear "crap" about their significant other, so they would rather break it off than to have to hear one more word.
With my fiance, I had to put my foot down that I really like this guy, and they would have to get over themselves. I did not say anything about his skills or talents, or the fact that he had a PhD. for a long while, because I wanted them to get to know HIM, not his PhD. They would keep insulting him, and telling me he is stupid, etcetera, etcetera. It was only when I retorted, "if he is so stupid then why would he have a PhD.?" that they suddenly accepted him, and viewed him as intelligent. In the end, it was MY decision; not my parent's decision on who I spend the rest of my life with.