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Single in Cyberspace....& arranged marriages ....

Thread Title: MARRIAGE.....
"would you consider an arranged marriage and how and who would arrange it"

SMOKY:
An arranged marriage? Now that sounds like a good idea to me....! Arranging my own were disastrous mistakes.... so maybe someone who knows me would have made a better choice, for me! But I think here we need doting parents who realy know their children, after having carefully noted all their particular characteristics, and matched them to the partner... using their own mariage longevity experience. As long as its done with sincere love for the couple, backed up with experience, and they be nurtured thru the initial stages.

Someone wrote this :
"OMG!!! My parents have passed on a long time ago, but they had probably the worst marriage I've seen. 2 scorpio's fighting each and every day.... My father gave me the worst possible advise concerning marriage and relationship.
Better learn from your own mistakes and develope your intuition."

SMOKY:
AH yes, Intuition I have developed.... but its taken scores of years, and a few good disasters.... so now I got the intuition... looking for someone to practice it on.
Agree about the parents story. What was said previously was "Devoted Parents"! Like certain ethnic groups used to have.. dont know if that exists anymore.... their arranged marriages. My folks certainly couldnt have arranged anything for me.... two Aquarians!!!

But I followed their example... got the divorce, got a few more too... just for good experience, now my family look to me for divorce lawyer expertise! Who needs lawyers anyway? Just experience!!
But maybe, if there was a real professional company who did the CJ Jung type of thing and realy took it serious, and gave guarantees ?.... would that work? ... maybe..?


In response to something written by our Illiterate Professor...:
"if to people meet fall in love thats thats ,no one can arrange for it to happen"


SMOKY:
"I do believe that the idea behind a so-called "arranged marriage" is for the couple to be evenly matched, to produce children who will inherit the talents of the two families.. ie. artistic or musical families, families talented in law, medicine, farming, whatever. Also LUST is not involved, so there would more stability in the relationship... and the children benefit from this, having two parents joined in a mutual agreement for the benefit of the FAMILY.... not their own particular yen for that season. (?)"

.............oOo............more in next blog ..... I run out of space here ... but the dialogue continues .....
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continued ... arranged marriages ...

In response to:
"so how is it that arranged marriages appear to work is it that the couples involved are scared to walk away or maybe it just simply works"

SMOKY:
After all my explanations... you still want it explained.. .in detail? Okay, now I will tell you a true story.
Once upon a time, in South Africa, I had this friend, a Zulu woman, and she was very unhappy in her marriage to her Zulu husband, because he was having affairs all the time and hardly ever came home at night.
She was so unhappy that her hair turned pre-maturely grey.
I asked her why she doesnt get divorced from him.
She was horrified! She said if she got divorced, she would have to remove herself from the entire family.... the house, the children, all the relatives... and she would enter the world alone, leaving EVERYTHING behind.
These were a fairly modern couple, with a nice european style house, in fact they owned 2 houses, their 3 children attended a good private school, she was the head of an Education Department, and her husband owned his own butcher shop in town.
To stay in the marriage and keep her children, she had to accept whatever her husband did.
Their marriage had been arranged by the two families, and it was un-heard of for one partner to walk away.
If they did, they left in disgrace at not having the strength to stay.... they believed in the "Till death us do part" "for better or worse" part of their vows, and had taken those vows seriously.
Something that us "enlightened" europeans discard without a thought.

In response to:
"so your ans to the ? itake it is no?"

SMOKY:
Cheez.. ! "no" what? Do arranged marriages work? Yes they do cause the couple is so darned scared of the extended family they end up sort of behaving themselves which is all that is needed for the children to have the security of the entire family and no divorces and no fat-cat lawyers schneiying all the money and eventually the husband will get tired of his tarts and will be too old to go jolling around anyway so the couple will just live happily ever after and become the elders of their little tribe. End of story.

(and then the OP goes off at a tangent .....and changes the subject!)
In response to:
"smoky have a look at my profile is there pics there please and let me know please"

SMOKY:
"Hello dear, Yes your pics are all there.. just changed around a bit. Your main photo is the one you dont usually use, the one where you looking all sorrowful and full of the woes of life.
Your full frontal nude oops sorry full frontal face where you lounging in a chair looking all pleased with yourself clad in your stripey jersey with the leather laps on your shoulders and looking like Clint Eastwood is there. And the profile one where you looking all debonair is there. Is that all you wanted to know?"

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NO REPLY. hahahaaaa ..... We DO seem to become rather cyber-intimate on this site dont we?
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Free advice for Singles in Cyberspace ......

GENERAL FREE ADVICE .....
(By a site member)
.....NOT ME! ... someone else .... long gone into the ether of the atmosphere..... but his words live on ......



“Good question, and one, which deserves an answer from one who has met a number of prospective partners on dating sites. Here is a bit of advice for us fellows without I hope, being condescending”.

1. Don’t be tempted to lie about your age.

2. Put a recent photograph on your profile (initially, women as well as men, buy with their eyes). Subsequently, women send shop soiled goods back to the factory for re-packaging.

3. Try not to ramble on too much, about what you do and don’t like, many a Christmas present wrapped in brown paper turns out to be a real cracker.

4. Finally, although most definitely not of his persuasion, remember Oscar Wilde’s classic utterance. “Do I love you because you are beautiful or are you beautiful because I love you? Far better to accept the latter and forget the trophy”.

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Well .... it IS one way to find someone who ticks to your tock, or tocks to your tick, or whatever it is you are looking for .....?
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Single in Cyberspace

Three years ago .. or it could be our or five years ..... I lost count of my single years here ..... I joined this site, and had such

great fun ... wasting my time writing stacks of bullshit.

Well, actually it was not bullshit to begin with ...... I joined to try and meet someone to be friends with, and go out with. And there was just never any way to actually meet anyone cause I live in a Cow town in Switzerland, which is way out of reach for most people in Europe anyway......

And then, one day, I noticed this little thingy at the top of the page called "Forums" and "EU Forums" .... and clicked on them .... and hey!... I found all these people writing crazy stuff!

So I began reading them ..... and took me about three days to work up the courage to actually write something.

I was VERY polite, and ended most of my contributions with a "?" .. just to show I was not trying to be dominating and know-all about stuff.

And then slowly slowly I began to unwind ... and actually enjoy myself. Could not wait to get back to the laptop ..... to see how things were progressing .......

The most incredible people were writing such funny stuff .... at times I could not stop laughing and chuckling to myself at the sheer humour being contributed!

And then ..... another side of myself began to emerge ... the evil side .... well not actually evil, per sé ..... actually I was just being ME ...... writing from my own experiences, and seemed like I had bumped into a lot of evil sorts in my life .. that others were only just meeting for their first time!

And of course ..... I got to "meet" others who seemed to arrive suddenly, attempt a blasting at me for replying to something they wrote ..... and then I sort-of shat on them (verbally in written form) from a dizzy height, cause they were being outright rude and obnoxious ... and upsetting other members.

Funny how we "make friends" here, and then get protective over them when some "outsider" arrives and begins making rude or crude comments about or to them? Specially as most of the regulars here are just people, all the same ... looking to make a contact, preferably a romantic contact ...... cause the world is a mighty big, and lonely, place, and not an easy place to meet someone compatible ... these days.

And then I began compiling a sort-of book of all these experiences.

But then I ran out of energy, cause its no fun trying to write anything when I`m writing "to myself" .... inspiration just dries up.

I love what others write, in context to certain subjects ... to see their sense of humour, and their miserable sides too .... And sometimes I just like playing the Devils Advocate and seeing the response to an opposite view as opposed to the straight and "normal" views .....

And so ..... instead of Blogging to a private site ... I am thinking of blogging right here, on CS, and see if I can bore you all to tears and head banging insanity.

Please let me know if you have managed to bang your knees with your head while reading what I write, thank you. drinking
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