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Originally Posted by ChickenPho
Well thankfully, my mom is different from the rest of her sisters. So none of us have to (nor had to) put up with any of this BS.
THe thing is with my aunts being such controlling and demanding parents, they can literally have their kids buy into anything they say. It of course helps her a lot that all the kids in the family (except my siblings and I) were brought up in a hard nose traditional culture throughout their entire childhood. If youre familiar with just how strict the amish religion is, well my aunts arent far from it.
So their kids are all firm believers that they must follow what their parents say or else they will be letting their mothers down and disobeying them *sigh* Buncha bologne if you ask me. Its comical when I see them at family gatherings and theyre all just like their mothers with extremely hard nosed traditional demeanors. I remember as I attended each and every one of their weddings, all I would hear from them constantly is "so ____ is next to get married"...."now ____is next." I just laughed, its like give it up already, how about letting people get married when they are ready, not by age.
Im just glad my siblings and I are so different from my cousins. Id hate to live life on a leash.
And like its already been said, having a kid isnt easy and at 27, very few people that age today can handle it. There are a lot of people that age who just finished college or just finished up and starting their careers, let alone having families. Putting the pressure on them just because the parents want to see it is a joke.
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yeah the role of women is so different now the culture has to shift. Especially Asian ones who's daughter are mostly accountants.
A) In the past, women didn't have to work (marry at 16)
B) Then women started to work but it was lighter jobs, maybe some payroll that would be learned without post-secondary (marry at 19)
C) Then a B.Comm was needed to perform accounting duties (marry at 23)
D) Then a B.Comm wasn't enough, needed designation like CPA (marry at 27)
E) now some of my friends are saying even a designation isn't enough as there is too much competition, more schooling is needed, like maybe some engineering courses to become oil/gas specialist accountant (marry at 30)
It's takes longer to get somewhere in a career so family has to be pushed back.