meirl
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Opinions are progressively less and less impact as they expand out. With parents, life’s just easier if they approve. You don’t need it but it’s better to have it. By the time you’re getting to uncles, though, you’re dealing with disapproval like 4 times a year? Who cares
My hamster approves but my bearded dragon says no.
The idea that happiness requires the validation of others is pretty wild.
Why tolerate the existence of those people when you can just throw them away?
i’m marrying the person , not my silly ass family . i don’t care about anyone’s opinion except mine and the person who proposed to me 🖕🏽
But what does Ja Rule think about my marriage?
I DID marry someone my aunts and uncles didn’t agree with… a woman 😂 homophobic tw@s! My mum, dad and Gran supported me tho so all was good 😁
Postman might be your real dad.
I didn’t even ask my parents, and I was told if I asked her father for permission her answer was going to be no.
We are adults who can make this sec ourselves.
Image letting other people decide ur life 💀
Weirdly if my grandfather didn’t approve of someone but my parents did I would actually care more about that. My parents sucked but my grandfather loved me unconditionally and was a very practical person. He’d only be against it if it was genuinely not going to leave me happy or had real concerns.
I don’t think we necessarily *need* other people’s approval but I generally don’t think it’s terrible to ask trusted loved ones (regardless of familial ties) their opinion. Sometimes it provides perspectives we hadn’t seen (or don’t want to see). I know it’s not fun to think of it this way, but we don’t always see potential problems and it’s a good conversation to have before we commit to something life changing.
Unfortunately my father is a postman… But i still wouldn’t care about his opinion
The milkman approves. More “work” for him
As if my parents opinion matters either.
I’m not gonna ask for their opinion or permission. I will marry my man when I want and where I want. If my parents don’t like it well too bad because I don’t need permission to start a family with the love of my life.
“Hmmm… she’s fine” – the confused postman
My gay cousin did wait until my grandmother died before he got married. More so because they didn’t want to explain to a very catholic woman who’d be dead within the year that her grandson gay.
Honestly I think she would’ve been fine, but they didn’t chance it.
I don’t care if my parents or her parents approve. I’m not building a life with them they are just accessories that I’m happy to drop off at the next stop.
Once knew a catholic couple that got their pre marriage counseling with a Rabbi. Why a Rabbi? Because he had been married 25 years.
Fun fact. His uncle is the postman.
This is more a middel easern / african cultur thing. Of all my married cousins i dont think their was a single one where they got denied.
I only care about what Mr.T thinks.
I would get married regardless of what anyone including mine or her parents said. Tf they gonna do shun me? Fantastic, the lectures were getting tedious anyways
First and foremost: fuck any idea that parental approval is a requirement for anything. Be an adult, own your life.
Reddit polls now required for the issuance of a marriage license.
I’m baffled that anyone would care at all with their parents think much less more extended family. Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people.
There isn’t a person alive or dead that could have kept me from marrying my husband
Let me ask all of you, do you need your parents approval? I feel like I do
Simple hint: don’t try to marry one of your uncles then!
It would depend on the family member and why they disapproved, but I still didn’t seek out anyone’s approval for my husband.
Also, I have 22 aunts and uncles, not counting other generations or however many times removed. That is far too many people to seek approval from.
Shit my parents didn’t approve… that didn’t fucking stop me, more than 2 years later and we’re great
Yea cause fuck that family…They did what wanted…
there was a slightly bigger reason that i wont get into, but a girl who id known for a long time and had the best one night thing with, telling me how amazing i was, how her mother thought we’d be great together. then mentions we probably cant date because i got too drunk around her grandparents a decade prior and they still didnt like me lol.
Lmfao this is such stupid logic. When my wife and I got married, we decided that we only wanted to invite immediate family and one close friend. We didn’t even bother to tell any of our other family or friends about or date.
When our wedding came and went, word got out and my mom was telling me that a lot of my family was upset that we didn’t invite them. It honestly didn’t bother us in the slightest because it was OUR wedding, not theirs. Plus, I’m not fixing to pay for ungrateful people’s dinner plates, knowing they wouldn’t like what my wife and I chose to eat.
If your asking for that much opinions your heart isn’t in it right now should wait a few years and simmer down and don’t respond to pressure any response whatsoever will make it worst
I value the opinion of my cats WAY before I value the opinions of extended family.
I wouldn’t even care if my parents are against it. It is my damn life and I decide with whom to spend it
I am a postman and I don’t give a fuck about your marriage 😝🤣
My friend group didn’t approve of my ex three ish years into the relationship. Said they didn’t like how she was treating me, then she put me on the permanent break so she could spend 24/7 with a dude she met in minecraft.
I’ve kinda embraced being the clown of the friend group now