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a better sense of their own worth. dont spend their forties trying to get back what they gave away in their teens as do americans. a 16 year old french girl has the maturity of a 30 year old american woman. they know what they are worth down to the centime.
The United States is the only "civilized" country in the world where you still have such outdated, archaic, religion based 18th Century "family values" Most European countries don't give a crap about religion because they realized it is all BS about 50 years ago.
There's nothing "outdated" and "archaic" about being and staying committed. Truth is, we are more religious and it's almost always been that way. Gallup poll showed that Mississippi and Alabama are just as religious as certain parts of Africa and the Mideast are.
Majority of the population in Europe still do and get married though, but it's a lower majority than compared to us. The majority of Europeans are also religious but not in the same sense that we are or as much of a majority.
There's nothing "outdated" and "archaic" about being and staying committed. Truth is, we are more religious and it's almost always been that way. Gallup poll showed that Mississippi and Alabama are just as religious as certain parts of Africa and the Mideast are.
Majority of the population in Europe still do and get married though, but it's a lower majority than compared to us. The majority of Europeans are also religious but not in the same sense that we are or as much of a majority.
One thing I learned from living in Europe was they don't rush in to marriage and they have long stable relationships. I mean I constantly meet these 20 something girls that want a ring already to their boyfriends after only 2 or 3 years of relationship!
A lot of couples are taken seriously unless they are married here in the U.S.
Even though I'm married, I actually prefer cohabitation. Now before everyone yells "HYPOCRITE!" and tries to set me on fire my husband and I married for health insurance purposes since I got pregnant with our child and he had health insurance at the time and I did not. We didn't do a wedding or some big to do, it was just a trip to the JP. I know, it's not romantic and fairy tale like but that does not mean I love him any less and he loves me any less. If I had health insurance at the time we probably would not have gotten married and cohabitated to our heart's content.
Even though I'm married, I actually prefer cohabitation. Now before everyone yells "HYPOCRITE!" and tries to set me on fire my husband and I married for health insurance purposes since I got pregnant with our child and he had health insurance at the time and I did not. We didn't do a wedding or some big to do, it was just a trip to the JP. I know, it's not romantic and fairy tale like but that does not mean I love him any less and he loves me any less. If I had health insurance at the time we probably would not have gotten married and cohabitated to our heart's content.
Not hypocritical at all, quite smart in fact. Marriage isn't meant to be romantic, its a business dealing.
Even though I'm married, I actually prefer cohabitation. Now before everyone yells "HYPOCRITE!" and tries to set me on fire my husband and I married for health insurance purposes since I got pregnant with our child and he had health insurance at the time and I did not. We didn't do a wedding or some big to do, it was just a trip to the JP. I know, it's not romantic and fairy tale like but that does not mean I love him any less and he loves me any less. If I had health insurance at the time we probably would not have gotten married and cohabitated to our heart's content.
I agree with you. There are many benefits to being married which is the reason why after 20 something years of being in stable relationships (I am on my 2nd long term relationship) I finally will wed...no wedding though. I just want some of those benefits I think I deserve lol.
Which is why I totally get why gay people are fighting for marriage.
I agree with you. There are many benefits to being married which is the reason why after 20 something years of being in stable relationships (I am on my 2nd long term relationship) I finally will wed...no wedding though. I just want some of those benefits I think I deserve lol.
Which is why I totally get why gay people are fighting for marriage.
This must be the follow up to "why french women don't get fat" or whatever , I read awhile ago. Who cares what French women are doing? They're always electing themselves to tell other women "how they should be or what they're doing wrong," based on what authority, I don't know.
No, they don't elect themselves to tell anyone anything. It's Americans who see a good marketing opportunity who spread this myth that French women don't get fat. They don't get fat because they diet a lot. One of the first idiomatic phrases I ever learned in French class was "to go on a diet".
The couple of French women I know didn't have happy love lives. They both divorced. One remarried two more times. They were wonderful people, maybe just didn't have luck in the choosing-men dept., idk.
American women have plenty of joy in their love lives. Those aren't the women a lot of guys on C-D are choosing for themselves, judging by posts.
More stereotypes biting the dust.
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Most European countries don't give a crap about religion because they realized it is all BS about 50 years ago.
