Son got himself a girlfriend about 6/7 months ago, I have no complaints about the girl, she's nice enough. He brought her home to meet me and my wife, everything was fine. My issue with it is that 2 weeks ago he announced that he would ask her to marry him. I thought to myself that he just had this plan for the future but he informed us that he wants to do it by next month.
My wife was over the moon with the news but I wasn't in the least. I told him that I don't believe this will work because they barely know each other, not only that but they're completely opposites. The girl is outgoing and charismatic while my son barely has enough friends, she makes him look like a dead weight not to mention that she's completely out of his league. Of course he got mad at this and so did my wife.
Now I found out that he won't be visiting us anymore and my wife has decided by herself that she will be visiting him instead. I don't see how it was wrong for me to give my opinion, it was just that, an opinion. I'm not going to get in the way of him marrying the girl.
Edit: Ok I get, I'm an asshole, I peaked at highschool, I'm jealous of my son.... The list goes on. But I'm still right that he's being stupid and I hope that you all have an asshole on your lives so when you think about doing stupid shit like marrying someone you barely know they at least try and give you some perspective.
[–]teelolws34 points35 points36 points (0 children) | Copy Link
Just posted this response, which I expect will get heavily downvoted because people don't want to hear the truth:
[–]deeselecter[S] 13 points14 points15 points (0 children) | Copy Link
The dad shouldhave gone about it in a better way.But a red piller might be see sth here.
Plain and simple the boy is in luv but the dad has some insight as to how the world works and what could go wrong.
The responses were herding .But for me I see his point if you scrape out the rough edges.
[–]MyOwnWay198513 points14 points15 points (2 children) | Copy Link
The out of his league comment was a lot of bullshit (even if true) and the reason why he's an asshole.
The telling his son to wait longer because he barely knows the broad is a correct and fair assessment.
[–]where_muh_good_mens6 points7 points8 points (1 child) | Copy Link
That was exactly as he should have said. If she was much hotter than him, then she will feel resentful that she didn't get a hotter, higher status man. She'll eventually cheat on him and then divorce rape him. This guy knows exactly whats up.
[–]dankturtle34403 points4 points5 points (0 children) | Copy Link
precisely. Looks are no trivial side-ways attachment to this discussion
[–]teelolws8 points9 points10 points (0 children) | Copy Link
Father needs to reconsider his marriage.
[–]ConstantChinner6 points7 points8 points (0 children) | Copy Link
Even if they DID know each other, it wouldn't work.
[–]martynhare 3 points4 points5 points (0 children) | Copy Link
He will likely be proven right here. Irresponsibly rushing into one of the most one sided legal contracts ever so quickly is a bad move, that is assuming she doesn't outright reject his offer for being a complete simp (assuming he's not loaded).
[–]ohnoesAlterEgo3 points4 points5 points (0 children) | Copy Link
Don’t worry lads, he’ll soon find out wtf his da was sayin’ without the old man ever repeating the story.
[–]quickGunShoot4 points5 points6 points (0 children) | Copy Link
Wisdom is often frowned upon.