The career woman bride

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Re: The career woman bride

@njgal

IMO parent’s opinions and “razamandi” hold a lot of weight in our culture and potential rishtas. Parents project not only their hopes and dream but also fears of what they hold true onto their children. That’s not fair to some degree.

I agree with you that being on the same page with your parents is important. I think poster indicated that the guy didn’t have a opinion at all which is not surprising.

You’re right, fears and prejudices are both projected onto the children. Which is why the guy should try and make an informed decision while taking his parents’ opinion and preference into account.

Just because a mother prefers a homemaker doesn’t necessarily mean she thinks a career woman is bad or evil.

@PyariCgudia

total population figures? Please show me a truly accurate set of statistics that show we churn out more smarter people than Indians. Please. I need it to boost my ego, because it is withering away when I go to a masjid or a local chat house and look at my people and their retarded, overweight, slow kids playing on handheld video games looking frightenly like small tiny Homer simpsons.

You can’t really base your opinion on the limited cross-section of Pakistanis you’ve come across. Like Jaanwar most Pakistanis I know are professionals in different fields, accounting, law, economics, research, medicine, engineering. Every profession in the book. If anything, Pakistani parents tend to place way too much importance on education in childhood while ignoring their kids’ development in extracurricular activities. From what I’ve seen in Pakistani parents it’s all about their kids achieving high grades in school.