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my jaw literally dropped when i read this...are you serious??? 
We can't have kids. But I would be very protective of my daughter if I had one.
True story. Two cousins were working on logging job about four hours from home. One of those cousins was dating one of the local girls. That local girl went to one of her cousins and told her her boyfriend had a cousin wanting to go out on a date, but didn't know any girls. So she asked if she wanted to go out with him. She agreed to. He knew she was the one he wanted to marry the very moment he laid eyes on her. He asked her that night how she felt about getting married, she thought he was joking(he was as serious as a heart attack)and said when she was old and gray. ~ 2.5 months later they married, and remained married until she died 45.5 years later. I know this to be true because they were my parents.
I asked mom once if she knew dad was serious what would she had said. She said she went around the house the next day writing her name as 'Sharon Elizabeth Fletcher'...her last name was Baker at that time(her maiden name, too). Their marriage wasn't perfect. It had as many ups and downs as a rollercoaster, but when she died, dad died(inside). He never even had a GF after that. He tried to, but couldn't do it. When he died, he had no GF in his life, and wanted it that way. He left being surrounded by a bunch of family members. He and mom are with the Lord now.
hahaha you're kidding right? a DECADE???
We know the brain isn't fully developed physically until age 25. You don't want to be making life long decisions without your brain to someone without a brain...it's only logical.
It's also important to build a relationship firmly on the rock of Jesus...so you both should grow together in a church as well.
Just mho looking back over my personal thoughts of doing it right the first time from an age of clearer understanding and wisdom.
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Yeah, truthfully, it's when a father makes a man marry his daughter after he got her pregnant.
And the reason it's funny. Just bringing one to a wedding makes people wonder if that's why they're getting married. (If babies come after nine months, that's when everyone is sure it was a joke.)
(Also, lots of hunters in my family, so everyone had a shotgun in their house when I was young. I simply wasn't interested in using it. BUT, loved the meat it brought to the table.)
And the reason it's funny. Just bringing one to a wedding makes people wonder if that's why they're getting married. (If babies come after nine months, that's when everyone is sure it was a joke.)
(Also, lots of hunters in my family, so everyone had a shotgun in their house when I was young. I simply wasn't interested in using it. BUT, loved the meat it brought to the table.)
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my jaw literally dropped when i read this...are you serious???
He's best known for albums like Bat Out of Hell (I & II), and had the rocker's hairstyle, but he's a BIG, plump man. He's also a family man, and had daughters.
To protect his daughters from the kinds of guys who would date them just because he's their father, he insisted every date had to come to the door and knock, so he could meet them, before they took his little girls out. AND, every time a date came to the door, he'd pull out the shotgun, hold it in his hand, before the daughter opened the door, and he personally invited the guy in. He'd shaked their hand and then he'd talk to them -- ask them where they're going, when they'll be home, and all other questions a strict father would ask... all while holding the shotgun.
It worked. Half the dates ran, and the other half really were very polite and attentive to his daughters. He scared them to death. lol
I think Sov was on that page.
Honestly, I feel like I'd be that as a mother, had I become a mother. My heart was to lock my kids in their rooms for 35 years to protect them. Turns out? That's illegal. Who knew?
(My heart was there. Thank God, he gave me a brain too.)
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My luck, we'd take pictures of shotguns at the wedding, and all the guests would be wondering, and then we'd end up with a honeymoon baby...a month preemie. And suddenly I have no friends . Life is hard.
. Life is hard.
The only way around that part is to elope, but, if you elope, no one is bringing the shotgun. lol
My first fulltime job out of college was a grant program. We all knew when we were hired that the job was only 11 months. Right before the seven of us started, one of the women got married. And, sure enough, she got pregnant on the honeymoon. (She really did. She was a Christian, and a very nice lady, so we believed her.) After the honeymoon, her husband put her on his health insurance. Three to four weeks later, (and she started this job right after her honeymoon too), they found out she was pregnant. And insurance wouldn't cover it because it was "a preexisting condition."
As it worked out, she worked until May, (we were teachers taking over classes once a week, so it didn't affect the outcome of the job), and the money she made was used to have the baby. Our last two weeks on that job the baby came to work too. (Not a problem. Once the school year was over, all we were doing was compiling the evidence of whether our work was effective for the next grant, so we were all sitting around the office making charts or working on the grant proposal. Most of us didn't know anything about writing grant proposals, so we spent time goo-gooing to the little tyke. lol)