Is it wise to marry younger women?

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This apply’s to men and women.
A woman could think marrying a man with a lot of money will help her feel secure.

what do you think about that?
Is it ok, for women to do this?
 
This apply’s to men and women.
A woman could think marrying a man with a lot of money will help her feel secure.

what do you think about that?
Is it ok, for women to do this?
NO, women should never do that, and men, bf, or husbands should never enable it, because then that is all they see them as, and love seems to be just an insincere necessity. Again men, be careful telling that woman, I will treat you like a princess. I know housewives and at-home-mother’s who are given an allowance like a child, and it is never enough, and fights break out about it. What if they need more money for clothing, food, and necessities, though? Just remember that relationships in the past survived and thrived because they were arranged, so they made a forced effort to make things work. If you came from European ancestry, then the woman’s family had to have a dowry to give to a man in the understanding that he would care and take dominion over her and the family they make together. Money now-a days are, in falsehood, looked at, as a big way out of problems. This partnered with a pretty face are still the main two reasons in stern countries as good and natural reasons for marriage. In first world countries, where work is not too hard to come by, there is no excuse to not work (other than caring for many young kids, youthful children, or tending to major illness), at least, part-time. Working also includes running programs, church ministry, and volunteer programs. I cannot tell you how the old images I have I my head of SAHM and housewives utilizing everyday just gossiping on the phone for literal hours, watching soap operas, and playing solitaire for hours on end, was so utterly disappointing to me. Is this sufficient use of lifetime?

Look at where we are now? We have the option to court for as long as we want, be picky, choosy, and careful. Now there are 50% single of my age range, not too many kids around as when I was a kid. (This can go off into so many more tangents; I will not get into much more of this).

In short, being a stay at home mom or dad is truly the hardest job in all the world, so many emotions and split second decisions all ride on their shoulders. No one can put a price on that. No woman or man should get into a marriage commitment with dollar signs in their eyes, although finances, plans, and responsibilities MUST be discussed ahead of time money in this vocation must and should be as modest as the other vocations. Single-hood will heed the most riches in first world countries, and it is usually those people who become pretty big philanthropists and donators of free service time and handouts.

This is the same reason some younger men want a successful woman, she is typically older, has a plan, educated, has strategies on how to keep things afloat, a sugar-mama, maybe? Seems like they like being taken care of, which can be a bit indicative of them finding their mother, which many pleasant men have admitted to believing of themselves. I think they crave being taken care of, or maybe following others because most of the younger guys I have dated have all, except for a few, been the youngest siblings in their families.

Again, enjoy conversations and your time together, and that is going to be the best indicator of your feelings, attraction, and love for that person. Good Luck! Sorry I took so long responding, I have been swamped, and have little time to respond to these posts, CAF is more of a guilty pleasure for reading, more than responding, at least for me, anyway! LOL

Here is a link to that one thread I forgot to include before.
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=303990
 
My advice? My advice is that all advice concerning love is useless. 😃

I’ve seen perfect marriages…break up in a year .

More than once I have seen two razor-tongued, control-freak, spend-thrift, sexually deviant schizophrenics who married each other…and the marriage lasted happily until death do us part. Believe it or not ! ( one of the relationships I just described was my own parents. I lived with them cheek-by-jowl 30 years, my description is accurate. )

Love is like death, nobody knows anything about it. 👍

Well, there is one thing ; it gets mentioned in every thread like this, EVERYBODY in this thread has mentioned it, or alluded to it ;

Both partners have to want to try.

that’s all, that’s the beginning, and the end, of it.

How come arranged marriages among ignorant backward rustics in the miserable middle ages worked, but, despite all our advantages , our comforts, and our wisdom, we are a culture of old maids and old bachelors living on bitterness and Prozac ?
Figure that one out.
–or just refer to the above statement.
 
I agree with kesa82 that the success of a marriage depends entirely on the commitment of the two partners to making it work.

I do know, however, that there are ways to make it easier, so that the “will” of the partners is not tested as often. I recommend that! 👍
 
This thread has become rather heated, so let me add my thoughts to the conflagration.

How young is too young? Well, if being with alone with the person is a crime, then it is probably too young.

How old is too old? If they have no pulse or their body temperature is the same as room temperature, that is a bad sign.

How much age difference is too much? I generally prefer to keep that number lower than three digits.
 
I have visited countries where marriages are arranged.

I don’t think those marriages work
because they were decided on beforehand. But because those people have a VERY REALISTIC view of family…mother hood…and
father hood.

They don’t watch T.V. and think that its that way in real life.
They know what family is about.

Family is extremely important, they start out as good sons and daughters, then the parents of both parties teach them to be good husbands and wives.

If family was as important to us as
football…baseball…basketball, like it is in those other countries…then we would have families just as strong as they do.

We have the freedom of choice correct…but they seem to have everything else correct.
 
This thread has become rather heated, so let me add my thoughts to the conflagration.

How young is too young? Well, if being with alone with the person is a crime, then it is probably too young.

How old is too old? If they have no pulse or their body temperature is the same as room temperature, that is a bad sign.

How much age difference is too much? I generally prefer to keep that number lower than three digits.
Ok, maybe some people aren’t so picky. :rotfl:
 
It is interesting that some in these
countries are very rebellious against there traditions. Some young people act just like we do in America, and they have the EXACT
same problems. One of my friends
there was dealing with a bad break up, and they ofcourse both
were more American then traditional in there thinking.
 
My advice? My advice is that all advice concerning love is useless. 😃

I’ve seen perfect marriages…break up in a year .

More than once I have seen two razor-tongued, control-freak, spend-thrift, sexually deviant schizophrenics who married each other…and the marriage lasted happily until death do us part. Believe it or not ! ( one of the relationships I just described was my own parents. I lived with them cheek-by-jowl 30 years, my description is accurate. )

Love is like death, nobody knows anything about it. 👍

Well, there is one thing ; it gets mentioned in every thread like this, EVERYBODY in this thread has mentioned it, or alluded to it ;

Both partners have to want to try.

that’s all, that’s the beginning, and the end, of it.

How come arranged marriages among ignorant backward rustics in the miserable middle ages worked, but, despite all our advantages , our comforts, and our wisdom, we are a culture of old maids and old bachelors living on bitterness and Prozac ?
Figure that one out.
–or just refer to the above statement.
Thank God I am not the only one who is blunt! I think you are correct in many ways, I grew up not truly seeing love like it was in the movies, I saw man and his wife, but no one was ever lovey dovey. However, there is an element to the marriage that must include love. I am a pessimistic person, most times, however as explained to me in the church and as I have heard in wedding vows, love is an element that is needed. I think either spouse must know and understand that they are supported and thought of in a much tender way other than the Lord.

The Prozac statement is pretty forward, and well understood since there is widespread depression, and I think that that missing piece of love as much as so many other elements is due to that. Everyone has their own battles they’re fighting.

Love does not have to come from a spouse, most people would like it to if they marry, I mean I think that is what people hope for when they do, to at least get that element of it that resides between God and their parents. Unfortunately, it is not what I have observed.

As a single or religious you know the love God has for you and God knows the love in your heart, your family and close friends love you, it is all different kinds of love.
I mean I love my mother with all my might. It is the same love I had from her growing up.

Should any of us singles marry, you must “make love” to your spouse, if you had children who married, you would rather say that, right? Not we were “baby making” you. As much as I would love an immaculate conception, this day and age, no one would believe it, and I don’t think you can fool a Bride by telling her that “God gives her one.” So I will go with my priest when he says you must have loving relations.

As far as the arranged marriages go. Other than by family obligation, as I have stated before, this was very common a few decades ago in Europe as my grandparents were married this way. My grandfather like someone else, and my grandmother did not even know she was getting married. Oh well, Thou shalt obey thy mother and father! And that was the end of it. Weren’t Mary and Joseph arranged?
 
How much age difference is too much? I generally prefer to keep that number lower than three digits.
Um… Maybe I shouldn’t ask for specific examples of those relationships. :ehh:
 
Thank God I am not the only one who is blunt! I think you are correct in many ways, I grew up not truly seeing love like it was in the movies, I saw man and his wife, but no one was ever lovey dovey. However, there is an element to the marriage that must include love. I am a pessimistic person, most times, however as explained to me in the church and as I have heard in wedding vows, love is an element that is needed. I think either spouse must know and understand that they are supported and thought of in a much tender way other than the Lord.

The Prozac statement is pretty forward, and well understood since there is widespread depression, and I think that that missing piece of love as much as so many other elements is due to that. Everyone has their own battles they’re fighting.

Love does not have to come from a spouse, most people would like it to if they marry, I mean I think that is what people hope for when they do, to at least get that element of it that resides between God and their parents. Unfortunately, it is not what I have observed.

As a single or religious you know the love God has for you and God knows the love in your heart, your family and close friends love you, it is all different kinds of love.
I mean I love my mother with all my might. It is the same love I had from her growing up.

Should any of us singles marry, you must “make love” to your spouse, if you had children who married, you would rather say that, right? Not we were “baby making” you. As much as I would love an immaculate conception, this day and age, no one would believe it, and I don’t think you can fool a Bride by telling her that “God gives her one.” So I will go with my priest when he says you must have loving relations.

As far as the arranged marriages go. Other than by family obligation, as I have stated before, this was very common a few decades ago in Europe as my grandparents were married this way. My grandfather like someone else, and my grandmother did not even know she was getting married. Oh well, Thou shalt obey thy mother and father! And that was the end of it. Weren’t Mary and Joseph arranged?
Good point!
Joseph and Mary was arranged wasn’t it?
Well there parents have good tast.

Its hard to define marriage because its so different for so many people. Some marry after only dating 2 months.

Some live together for years first.
I don’t think we have a set form of marriage in this country.
So its hard to say Marriage is this
or that.

I think you need marriage in the Trinitarian formula God…Husband…Wife
not just Husband and Wife.

The family was instituted by God
before even The Catholic Church
right?

So satan has had a long time to learn how to tear it down.
 
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