That has been a huge advantage of Mrs. Swan being 21 when she got pregnant. The initial learning curve has been frustrating at times but we’re slowly getting there.
as long as you don’t do anything that gets you arrested and registered as a sex offender for life
i can see the merit in fishing in the pool of unsullied rather than the mid-20 yo cesspool. delicate once you hit 30 obviously. that’s why i think early college may be the way to go. start hitting the college spots and report back.
If I could go back I probably would have dated exclusively at or below 24 yo instead of wasting time with the late 20’s.
^ once school is back in session, that’s exactly what i’ll be doin. there will be a full report in december
3 reasons to go back for an mba.
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networking
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prestige
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thots.
I think there was a movie on that. Single guy switches with married guy. I think Ryan Reynolds was in it.
my buddy whos been going to college for the past 7 yrs. youd think he was getting his phd but he is just getting his bs in philosophy. hes still at it. anyways. he thought itd be funny if we crash his first day of school. kind of like wedding crashers but college version. so me and my banker buddy did. anyways. i sat through 1 class. BORING af. my buddy was disruptive af nodding at chicks and cat calling. anyways, we decided not to follow at the 2nd class and just started hollering at the lunch area. anyways it didnt feel right telling ppl we were just there for a pick up session. so i wouldnt recommend it. wasted vacation day.
Well i wouldnt be going to their classes, more so the bars they go out to. or the library, so i know she’s at least trying to educate herself
Congratulations!!
I met my wife my last semester of college, engaged at 26 but we waited until I was 28 to get married.
You guys must meet some incredibly boring girls to feel this way. My wife and I traveled, went to out to bars, concerts, events, weddings etc etc. I really don’t feel like I missed out. I do miss being younger and have more flexibility but it wasn’t because I was married.
I do sense that single guys in their 20’s may have marginally more “fun” but your 30’s are going to be lonely and annoying. Good luck with all those insane NYC girls left in the queue begging to be married and knocked up in t-minus 45 seconds.
I totally agree. I was at a really traditional old Scottish wedding earlier in the summer and i found a lot of it really cringey. The whole “we present to you mr and mrs bob mcsporran” as if it’s 100 years ago and she’s now totally represented by her husband. The father of the bride’s speech was just a constant flow of misogynistic bullshit. I spent most of it wondering why he even gets a speech. the bride was the biggest gobshite you’ve ever met and she just sits there as the men do speeches, i think the bride should do a speech at weddings.
^ Gringo, I appreciate the across-the-pond perspective you bring here, but Jesus, man, most of us are in the U.S. Can you explain to a clueless American wtf a “gobshite” is?
Of course, a gobshite is basically just someone that never shuts the fuck up and has something to say about everything. Usually a nippy wee woman.
I think it is customary that the father of the bride gets a speaking opportunity when he is footing the bill. otherwise, I’d say no to him giving any speech.
Ah yes, I understand now…the human equivalent of an incessantly-barking Pomeranian.
And how did that really make you feel?
Shes asian (and luckily her family doesnt believe in any of the stupid shit from that culture), i understand the cultural thing I suppose it just seems really antiquated to me. As if you are saying your daughter doesnt have the capability to make the decision on her own. Although I realize its largely a formality as the daughter is going to do what she is going to do anyway and he will obviously say yes. Based on the Italian families I know (although not limited to just Italians, there are plenty of cultures like that) the older generations are incredibly misogynistic and the culture is pretty traditional in that sense so I can see it being important.
Luckily the wedding I was just at the brides fathers speech was just a “thanks for coming and sharing in our daughters marriage to this young man, have a great time” which is a timeless classic you cant go wrong with. Yea a lot of marriage stuff is so ridiculously misogynistic, I find it pretty strange. I suppose the parents want to work themselves in some way since in many cases they pay for a chunk of it. I think the father daughter dance is a nice idea though, and most weddings now seem to have a groom/grooms mother dance as well which is a nice gesture I suppose. Brides father got pretty drunk, which is of course one fantastic time honored tradition I can get behind.
^People are getting butt hurt about the stupidest shit. In some ways the relationships between parents and their children will for the most part vary across gender lines. They just do. I’ve heard from my friends that have had girls then boys that within months boys behave completely differently. I’m not saying there aren’t exceptions but guys and girls are biologically different in their behavior. People have this obsession with trying to repaint reality into perfectly equal whitewashed behavior then getting mad when other people are ok with celebrating life’s differences.
If you don’t want to give your daughter away or whatever, fine, don’t. Jesus. I’ve also seen fathers speak about their sons at the wedding and most girls I know look / looked forward to their father walking them down the aisle or miss it terribly if they can’t have it (death, family situation, etc).
It has less to do with the girl being given away like some trinket and far more to do with the fact that the father daughter relationship has changed with the father now (most likely permanently) no longer being the primary male figure in the woman’s life that she can go to for support etc. It’s simply a ceremonial nod saying “thanks for being there” before the Dad’s role is diminished. If anything, a similar ceremonial thank you should be given by sons to their mothers but everyone already knows they’re just going to continue to meddle anyway so why fool ourselves.
All this social ire about misogyny had me laughing during the Olympics. If you want to pretend everything is so equal, just combine all the male and female events into one so a gold can be a gold instead of giving women special sexist treatment.