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15-03-2021, 04:35 PM | #1 | ||
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Afternoon Fellas, hope your days are well and good.
So wanted to see your guys opinion. Met a girl when I was overseas and we hit it off well, obviously chatting and working up to taking things to the next level once the borders open BUT yesterday I was hearing some pretty odd news. She goes she will go to see her cousin because she is currently in the city ( she's a country girl) For her course / training. She noted that the cousin, text's her almost everyday asking her to come out. She is reluctant to take money off her family but she is quite happy to take it from the cousin. The cousin is a police officer. Now to me this sounded abit wierd because does anybody's cousin ( Being of opposite sex) message them daily asking them to come out? I asked her what her thoughts were and she said, yeah i treat him like my brother ( kind of red flag / BS radar kicked in). I asked what he's actions of texting daily could mean and she said I don't know. In their culture, they are allowed to Marry their 2nd cousins or something. For me it's odd that somebody would be messaging their cousin daily and if they run out of money prefer to go see him / friends then their folks. Whats your thoughts ? 1. Is it abit wierd? 2 .Normal 3 .Do we have a crime scene here lol. Chime in all opinions welcome. Cheers |
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15-03-2021, 04:50 PM | #2 | ||
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Well, if he is directly her cousin, in the absence of other male family members she is subjugate to his supervision until married, and he is also obligated to protect her up to then?
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15-03-2021, 05:11 PM | #3 | ||
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Tough one. Can't do much when you are apart other than take her word for it.
Some foreign family structures are well.. very foreign to us Aussies. Cousin / auntie / uncle etc are thrown around often to replace 'very close family friend' - especially in Asian countries. Also, look at visa situation. You may be waiting years for an application to be processed and if you are footing the bill you could be out of pocket $10,000+. Good luck
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15-03-2021, 05:19 PM | #4 | ||
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It is legal to marry your first cousin or your uncle or aunty in Australia.
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15-03-2021, 06:13 PM | #6 | ||
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is she hot ??
post up some pics before i call it. |
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15-03-2021, 10:03 PM | #7 | ||
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She sure is.
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15-03-2021, 09:57 PM | #8 | ||
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15-03-2021, 09:32 PM | #10 | ||
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15-03-2021, 10:31 PM | #11 | ||
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Ask her if he's a cousin from her mother's side or father's side. Mother's side, walk away - he's keen. Father's side, walk away - he's a cop, if it goes bad he's only going to look out for her.
Did I say - walk away? She's cute, I saw the picture, it may work out. |
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15-03-2021, 11:49 PM | #12 | |||
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5 for wierd and walk away lol |
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16-03-2021, 07:24 AM | #13 | ||
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Incest. The game the whole family can play............
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16-03-2021, 09:50 AM | #14 | ||
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Just to clarify.... you're jealous because a chick you're interested in (and not even actually dating) is regularly spending time with her own cousin? and your "BS radar" is going off on that?
It sounds like jealousy to me, perhaps with some possessive issues mixed in there too. If someone hanging out with their cousin is a dealbreaker for you, what sort of woman are you actually looking for? One who avoids speaking to men entirely because it's inappropriate and just spends time with other women? Unless you guys are a couple or married.. and you catch someone with their bits in your girlfriend/wife's bits.. try and dial down the suspicion and possessiveness issues. It's not healthy, it never ends well, it'll destroy any chance of a relationship and neither of you can live your lives without ever interacting with members of the opposite sex. That kind of platonic interaction (without suspicion) is actually healthy for the both of you. This whole "she shouldn't be talking to or hanging around other men" is a good indicator of your views on women and relationships and I'd suggest it might even be worth speaking to someone about it professionally to nip it in the bud before it sabotages your personal relationships. It's not necessarily your fault, it's just that culture and society has a lot of influence over how people are raised to view sex and relationships and the current status quo needs some work. Suspicion about people talking to the opposite sex is one example. For what it's worth, my sisters and I spent most of ourchildhood years with our cousins and it didn't result in any kind of incestuous relationship amongst any of us. It did however contribute to learning that boys and girls can live/work/play together without it meaning that people of the opposite sex are interested in each other. Last edited by leesa; 16-03-2021 at 09:58 AM. |
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16-03-2021, 01:52 PM | #15 | |||
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16-03-2021, 04:06 PM | #16 | ||
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Walk away and see what happens ie leave it up to her,no idea about the culture part of it etc but the reality is it means nothing,she either wants to be with you or not.Simple really.
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17-03-2021, 04:55 AM | #17 | ||
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I would hate to see the state of the submissive soy boy who’d shack up with her and be subjected to and obliged to agree with that type of rhetoric on a daily basis.
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17-03-2021, 05:49 AM | #18 | ||
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Long distance relationships with people in foreign countries ?
If it was the US and it was different states its one thing. Same for say France and Germany , Italy whatever. Relatively equal countries that are not hard to travel between. Different but equal . If you are a 65 year old fat american and she is a 19 year old philipino (eastern european etc. ) gal then just transfer your entire bank account over to her today and get it over with. |
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17-03-2021, 08:59 AM | #19 | |||
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I think you'll find that kind of facade is quite thin and usually employed by delicate men who explode at the mere thought of looking weak, showing empathy, touching anything pink or basically doing anything outside of the narrow boundaries of what it means to "be a real man." |
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17-03-2021, 09:04 AM | #20 | ||
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So, what do you see as “non-toxic masculinity”? At present I feel some would argue that “toxic masculinity” is tautology.
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17-03-2021, 01:35 PM | #21 | |||
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What actually grew tired long ago is the perpetually triggered projecting their emotionally charged preconceived ideas on everyday scenarios to create oppressors and victims, the guilty and the innocent. These emotions sees facts, logic and due process being thrown out the window in favour of hierarchical left wing identity politics. Believe it or not, most everyday ideas, decisions, actions and the outcomes of such are more innocent or well intended than you’d like them to be. Not being able to cognitively distinguish variations between black and white sees wild theoretical accusations like yours above. The irony behind your post is you call out toxic masculinity preventing men speaking out. Yet OP has out of naivety, curiosity, lack of experience or knowledge come on here to anonymously ask a question that is playing on his mind only to be told by some feminist he is a potential domestic abuser. Well **** me, no wonder men don’t want to speak up or ask questions. Anyway. She might be stalling OP. Keeping him at length and considers him more of a brother. In which case. |
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16-03-2021, 06:53 PM | #22 | |||
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$5 hes a poof |
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16-03-2021, 11:18 PM | #23 | ||
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16-03-2021, 11:33 PM | #24 | ||
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I briefly dated a second cousin, nearly twenty years ago. It was mostly mutual physical attraction. We figured that due to one of us being adopted, there was no genetic link, the only “risk” was opprobrium.
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17-03-2021, 08:28 PM | #25 | ||
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17-03-2021, 12:31 AM | #27 | ||
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Way too little information for me to be casting any view on whether what is going on is "normal" whatever the hell that means, and seems to be some pretty narrow views here, as well as prejudices shown against people which is not cool.
But thanks to Citroenbender I have learned a new word
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17-03-2021, 08:11 AM | #28 | ||
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16-03-2021, 04:40 PM | #30 | ||
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A few assumptions on my part, but you met maybe up to a year or more ago? And you're still working your way up to it being a thing? If she's overseas, you're not playing the long game, you're playing the wrong game.
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