Does your culture or religion put heavy expectations on relationships and family? Do you do your own thing or try really hard to comply?

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Does your culture or religion often dictate how you can date, who you can date, or timelines of when you are "expected" to hit relationship or family milestones? Do you adhere to these edicts, or do you and your partner ignore them, and just do your own thing?

Miristheiss · Accepted Answer

Well, the human race needs families and relationships. Our biggest biological reason to exist is to reproduce and keep the species going.

Warped, super rich societies with nothing better to do but to seek endless pleasure and entertainment have the luxury to sit around and not have families and children.

My tattoos are my desire for deviant sex acts, endless travel and buying rich things, going out to eat every day, drinking, going to concerts, the pool and beach every day, endless entertainment and amusement. A family would be a burden. It would put a cramp in all of my free time and worship of self.

I need my free time, travel and endless sex with different people. I was meant for "more" than reproduction.

As if that isn't the main task/purpose of all living things.

Oh, it is "religion" that stresses these old fashioned, oppressive, out dated things huh?

TheSpaceGnome · Accepted Answer

No.

I'm not religious, I also don't follow any particular culture, I take the bits I like from various cultures and do my own thing with them as well as bits I makeup myself (the bits I take are mostly gamer geek, artist, european science scholar, and east Asian entertainment and community related stuff).

The United States is a cultural and education level melting pot, so outside churches (which I don't go to) and traditional old people in close knit families (which I'm not a part of), there is no pressure to be or act any particular way.

Mikochan · Accepted Answer

Okay let me tell you my boyfriend is a muslim and i am a hindu and we are serious about our relationship but i have a strict religious family and if they get to know that i am dating a muslim guy for one thing for sure that i am dead but even after knowing this we still dating. we love eachother and there is no god said that you can’t marry the person you love. At some point every religion teach us about loving others with respect. And no god said to go against each other because of different religion. The main point is unity.

EmmaMary · Accepted Answer

Thankfully we do not have any of this culture religious Bollox within our families... And even if we did, I would simply get on with doing my own thing.

Zack-Bann · Answer

I gave up on culture and religion long ago

It has absolutely no upside and is just an arbitrary set of rules used to control us

So no. It doesn’t

But I won’t lie to myself: i was raised within a certain set of beliefs and a moral compass.
Whether I like it or not I still apply some of these beliefs in my judgement of a person

OneViewpoint · Answer

I don't allow other people's expectations to affect my behavior. The harder they push me, the more I resist. I have my own internal morality and ethics that I trust far more than than I trust the opinions of a populist mob or religiots who worship magic invisible sky fairies, most of whom lack the IQ, discipline, empathy, and confidence to think for themselves. I'm an introvert. I have zero interest in being one of the herd.

soe11 · Answer

Me and my girlfriend are free frome all these. We both libral and believe in humanistic ideology. Me and my girlfriend is common in most things.  But my girlfriend's mother and har daughter are symbolically Muslim.

Fromdusktilldawn · Answer

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in my area (central Europe) culture isn't really interfering/controlling much. Its mostly just from the family. Some families are more religious, some are very liberal and others are strict. In my case there is not really any expectation, other than landing a better job and continue (making more) earning money.

serious · Answer

Yes in our county, in our culture typically children are expected to follow a certain lifestyle and live up the expectations of elders and parents. Children are expected to obey the elders.

Though things are slowly changing.

NicholasRedone · Answer

Ah yes the Catholic Church : they're strict officially - lol 😆 realistically if I had my way I'd be a convert to another Christian denomination, the "seemingly more progressive" Anglican/Church of England 💜 🟣

MLGbreezy · Answer

You say it’s all good and continue on what does it matter if it’s true or not he is responding back from whatever reason which I’d assume is you’re preferred outcome now see if things work out and if they do cool and if not cool

jshm2 · Answer

You mean "family" as it's family upbringing that will affect you more that faith or culture.

DailyFairy · Answer

I used to date a Christian and it was horrible, so i think sometimes following what ur religion or culture says makes a lot of sense. But we humans so no one is perfect

Nikki1989 · Answer

We have none of those fairytales in our lives.

ProbablyClueless · Answer

Not really... American culture kind of forcefully goes in the opposite direction of straight up disregarding family unity.

Yohenis · Answer

Religion in 2025 geezzzzz. My dad and mom doesn't have such strict rules neither we are religious if we go by bible a lot of things are forbidden lol

WonderingManII · Answer

I think my religion has good view on family life. However, things don't always work out that way.

LiamJHayden · Answer

Many people in the faith I follow do, but I march to my own drummer on relationships. My parents just wanted me to be happy.

winstanley2 · Answer

Duty to God above all else. God knows best. Mabe God has a reason for these "harsh" rules.

Anonymous · Answer

I'm not religious, my opinion is my own, and I don't follow any culture, because I'm more moral than most of the people in my country.

Cameila99 · Answer

Yes especially with my parent disowned me for not marrying the guy they picked out for me. I dodged that bullet turns out his abusive.

Anonymous · Answer

If anything my religion makes it harder to find a woman because there's far less women in it

whereismyjohnny · Answer

Yup, lol. Do my own thing...

chocolatetwopointo · Answer

nope

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