Would you marry, date someone from...... ?
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Cutaway_Collar wrote: »My wife and I are not of the same ethnic background. Never caused any ruckus. My family was okay with it. The extended family is still bummed I never held a second wedding ceremony in the home home country.
My wife's family is old school wasp folks. They proudly thump their chest about their non-homogenous son-in-law. In lower Connecticut, it's not a big deal. My brother's wife is Chinese. Very anxious to see what our children will look like. When my wife, my sister-in-law and my mother hang out together, it's a hell of a sight.
It must be a hell of a sight lol0 -
Different ethnicity?: Yes absolutely.
Colour?: Yes
Disability?: Really depends on what type of "disability." I think I'd be more willing to date someone with a physical disability than someone with a mental disability (such as bipolar, depression, etc). I think that just comes down to being able to connect with someone - if we aren't mentally stimulating for each other then I don't think it could go anywhere. My current boyfriend of four years though - I've seen him in his lowest and supported him, I wouldn't just leave someone I love because they're in a rough patch.
Religion?: This is another gray one for me. I've had a pretty winded journey of being a christian, to an atheist, to being agnostic, back to christian. I don't think I could date someone who didn't have an open mind and was very rooted into their beliefs, nor could I date someone who had absolutely no beliefs.1 -
I would but they have 2 at least hit the "Awesome" tag under my comments about 5 times, otherwise I just don't see a future1
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I only date other anime1
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tcunbeliever wrote: »I'm holding out for Spike!
Why are you holding out for me, I don't think I know you
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happilymegan wrote: »It bothers me that this is still a question. I've dated different ethnicities, I've dated women, I've dated men who have also dated men, I've dated people of religions unfamilar to me. I don't care about your ethnicity, you're sexuality or your disability. Long as there is a connection, and you're a good human being because that's what matters. The only thing that may get me is their religion. What do they believe and how closely do they follow it.
Not everyone is open minded like yourself1 -
I think dating/marrying someone from a different ethnic is real good. I would prefer someone different.1
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I would with the condition that there would be a judgement free, mutual respect for each other's beliefs! And Faith and compassion has to be present no matter from where!
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I stand by what I said. Just because im cool with it, so many are not.0 -
Absolutely0
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BowlingForHollars wrote: »MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »No purple people. You gotta draw the line somewhere. To hell with purple people, unless they're choking, then help them.
Did the one-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eater just eat purple people, or was he purple and just ate people?
He ate one eyed one horned purple people.0 -
ddeliciosa wrote: »Different ethnicity?: Yes absolutely.
Colour?: Yes
Disability?: Really depends on what type of "disability." I think I'd be more willing to date someone with a physical disability than someone with a mental disability (such as bipolar, depression, etc). I think that just comes down to being able to connect with someone - if we aren't mentally stimulating for each other then I don't think it could go anywhere. My current boyfriend of four years though - I've seen him in his lowest and supported him, I wouldn't just leave someone I love because they're in a rough patch.
Religion?: This is another gray one for me. I've had a pretty winded journey of being a christian, to an atheist, to being agnostic, back to christian. I don't think I could date someone who didn't have an open mind and was very rooted into their beliefs, nor could I date someone who had absolutely no beliefs.
As an agnostic man that has struggled with depression I find your response very confusing abd interesting.
Surely if you find you're attracted to them, physically & mentally/emotionally that's enough to build upon.0 -
robertparnow wrote: »I would date someone from hell
I was engaged to one from hell she is married to someone else luckily now its not my problem lol1 -
Yup absolutely. I love all ethnicities, I'm completely against religion but I respect other people religions as long as they respected my non religiousness, political views is hard since I'm more liberal but I'd date a conservative Republican as long as we respected each others views.
Things I will not date though is someone who is in support of racism, ageism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, classism, ableism....etc...
I cannot date someone who doesn't respect other people for who they are or treats people differently because of how they were born.
Other than that I'm not picky.0 -
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Sure but with the religion part, I really don't feel like converting to another religion just cause they want me to. Plus I'm not super religious and don't want to be reading the Bible every day even though I do have a Bible.1
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Never thought I would say this but ^^^he said it best0
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I would not date someone from a different religion than my own. I feel like it would create a lot of unnecessary complications. It also advises against this practice in my religion. I don't think I would date someone with an inherited disability or disease either, because I wouldn't want to pass it on to my children and so on.
Different ethnicity is fine. I don't like the word "race" because we're all human. Just different skin pigments.1 -
Now that I think about it in terms of physical disability, I wouldn't mind dating but a mental disability....it depends. If they're bipolar, schizophrenic or have another mental disability that causes them to act weird and get angry at you for no reason, probably not unless they're taking medication to 100% help them not flip out. I've dealt with bipolar chicks before and bipolar people in general, they are not fun to be around with and they're annoying to deal with.0
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happilymegan wrote: »It bothers me that this is still a question. I've dated different ethnicities, I've dated women, I've dated men who have also dated men, I've dated people of religions unfamilar to me. I don't care about your ethnicity, you're sexuality or your disability. Long as there is a connection, and you're a good human being because that's what matters. The only thing that may get me is their religion. What do they believe and how closely do they follow it.
Need details on this one.0 -
happilymegan wrote: »It bothers me that this is still a question. I've dated different ethnicities, I've dated women, I've dated men who have also dated men, I've dated people of religions unfamilar to me. I don't care about your ethnicity, you're sexuality or your disability. Long as there is a connection, and you're a good human being because that's what matters. The only thing that may get me is their religion. What do they believe and how closely do they follow it.
Need details on this one.
filthy details...1 -
DasItMan91 wrote: »Now that I think about it in terms of physical disability, I wouldn't mind dating but a mental disability....it depends. If they're bipolar, schizophrenic or have another mental disability that causes them to act weird and get angry at you for no reason, probably not unless they're taking medication to 100% help them not flip out. I've dealt with bipolar chicks before and bipolar people in general, they are not fun to be around with and they're annoying to deal with.
^dude that's not how mental health works. You don't just take meds and that it's you're cool with no episodes.
A lot of people think that people with schizophrenia or any other mental health issue freak out and get violent, are a danger and get mad at people for no reason. This is far from the truth.
it's your choice to date or not date whomever you want. Just hopefully you'll do it or not do it for the right well informed reasons and not stigma or lack of awareness.3 -
MrStabbems wrote: »DasItMan91 wrote: »Now that I think about it in terms of physical disability, I wouldn't mind dating but a mental disability....it depends. If they're bipolar, schizophrenic or have another mental disability that causes them to act weird and get angry at you for no reason, probably not unless they're taking medication to 100% help them not flip out. I've dealt with bipolar chicks before and bipolar people in general, they are not fun to be around with and they're annoying to deal with.
^dude that's not how mental health works. You don't just take meds and that it's you're cool with no episodes.
A lot of people think that people with schizophrenia or any other mental health issue freak out and get violent, are a danger and get mad at people for no reason. This is far from the truth.
it's your choice to date or not date whomever you want. Just hopefully you'll do it or not do it for the right well informed reasons and not stigma or lack of awareness.
I'm friends with a few bipolar/schizophrenic people plus like I said, I've met other mentally ill people before. They're not bad people, it's just they would get real snappy at me and other people, sometimes out of nowhere. It just gets annoying to deal with after a while because you gotta watch what you say and do just to keep them from saying something smart or mean out of nowhere. Luckily the friends that are like that are in a better position now and are still taking their meds so the episodes are not are prevalent anymore. At the same time, I don't see them that often anyway so I'm good. And I have been attacked by a mentally ill person before (I'm not going to get into the details why though)0 -
DasItMan91 wrote: »Now that I think about it in terms of physical disability, I wouldn't mind dating but a mental disability....it depends. If they're bipolar, schizophrenic or have another mental disability that causes them to act weird and get angry at you for no reason, probably not unless they're taking medication to 100% help them not flip out. I've dealt with bipolar chicks before and bipolar people in general, they are not fun to be around with and they're annoying to deal with.
Mental health is also a no for me. I don't think I can deal with it. Specially if they are violent.1 -
All women are violent1
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DasItMan91 wrote: »Now that I think about it in terms of physical disability, I wouldn't mind dating but a mental disability....it depends. If they're bipolar, schizophrenic or have another mental disability that causes them to act weird and get angry at you for no reason, probably not unless they're taking medication to 100% help them not flip out. I've dealt with bipolar chicks before and bipolar people in general, they are not fun to be around with and they're annoying to deal with.
Mental health is also a no for me. I don't think I can deal with it. Specially if they are violent.
Yeah man, I've dated two chicks that were bipolar and it was not a pleasant experience. Getting mad at you for every *kitten* thing or for no reason at all really gets to you. Having to worry about their mood shifting back and forth....nah. They had their niceness to them but if I meet another bipolar chick, I highly doubt I will give her a chance unless her meds were on point.0
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