When I talk to my grandparents and other members of the WW2 generation, I notice something interesting. They very rarely "dated" other people in the sense that we do today, where you go out, meet someone of the opposite sex, share a social and sex life together for a while, and maybe get married, but probably break up. Instead, they typically found a significant other very early in life, and after getting the families involved in the relationship, married at a young age and had lots of kids.
I wonder if this was the result of the times in which they lived, i.e. the Great Depression where dating someone you're attracted to was a luxury trumped by the need to enter a stable marriage and produce kids to help out with the house or business. People in this generation did not prioritize physical attractiveness or compatible personalities so much as they prized loyalty, companionship, economic stability, and family bonds.
Anyone have any thoughts on this, or different observations?
2007-12-25
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