We're at the day and age where women are just as able and successful as men in the workplace. So why do men still have to symbolically "buy" their wife's hand in marriage, and not vice versa?
2006-09-03 13:14:00 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Singles & Dating
For those women telling me It's how it is, and always SHOULD be.... I wonder if those women are against prostitution.
Because the whole tradition reeks of the same smell. wafts of it...
"Sniff-sniff... is that prostitution, or did someone just get engaged?"
2006-09-03 13:19:55 · update #1
Some woman do.But that is a good question.
2006-09-03 13:16:47 · answer #1 · answered by East Bay Punk 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some people buy their rings together as a couple. Some people don't even wear rings.
Then, why it is bride's parents who have to take care of the wedding? (Again, not everybody's like that. SOme families share the expences.)
OK, a ring should not be a major expence on your grand scale of things if you want to support a family. It it seems too expensive to buy a ring - just forget thet whole thing. You're not ready financially to get married.
In the country of my origin people exchange rings. They buy them for each other.
2006-09-03 13:17:11 · answer #2 · answered by Snowflake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually, by the time the guy gets up the nerve to ask a woman to marry him, she's already thought about marriage and talked about it with all her girlfriends and female family members. Although I agree that it's the 21st century, and gender barriers (one would think) would be broken down more, guys are still usually the last one in the relationship to want to commit, so the girls wait around for the guys to finally commit.
2006-09-03 13:19:18 · answer #3 · answered by kimilou2001 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You know - that's a really good question you have asked and I guess it stems back from the older days when women weren't as independent.
I think it's a great idea - women should have the right to offer a ring if they choose to.
2006-09-03 13:17:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, we decided to save one tradition, and even though a woman can propose to a man, the man buys the ring 'cause I for one would like to be showered in gifts.
2006-09-03 13:17:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I spose its just tradition that we ask our partners to marry us and not the other way around.
but on the filpside my gf has said that she would ask me to marry her if I didnt get on with things so yeah.
thanks for the question.
2006-09-03 13:17:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tradition? or maybe because men do not wear rings as often as women do?
2006-09-03 13:16:06 · answer #7 · answered by Просто Я 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because women are like checking guys' pockets to see if they have money or not. They dont like buying anything for the guys...kinda like me, i dont buy anything for any one
2006-09-03 13:16:17 · answer #8 · answered by AYU 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You guys would never wear them. And you durn sure won't go around showing them off like we do. Imagine that!
2006-09-03 13:18:11 · answer #9 · answered by Sleek 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
thats the way it is its written in history and its romantic as well, when you love someone you understand
2006-09-03 13:21:50 · answer #10 · answered by nice guy 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋