As a woman you can ask a man to marry you? As a man you will accept?

marriage - ask a man
@icesmile (7160)
Romania
March 3, 2010 1:55pm CST
No doubt the idea that a woman ask a man in marriage was a real disaster at a time when our grandparents were young. Centuries of tradition claim that men are the ones who should make requests in marriage. There are, however, a number of increasingly more women who ask if ok, or not, they make requests in marriage. Is our society ready to accept demands made by women in marriage? Although there are men who would breathe a sigh of relief to leave the marriage application in the hands of their friends, there are many men who feel the need to take a bolt at the sound of such idea. If you are married, who made application for marriage? you or your wife? you or your husband?
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4 responses
blimb
@grkelly (1206)
• Malta
3 Mar 10
My husband asked me to marry him, and I prefer it that way because it is much more romantic. I do not like it when a woman asks the man a marraige proposal.
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icesmile
@icesmile (7160)
• Romania
3 Mar 10
I don t like too, seems that i am old-fashioned, but times are changed,, people change, the romance disappears...
choybel
@choybel (5042)
• Philippines
3 Mar 10
The way women are stepping up today, it wouldn't be a surprise anymore if a thing like this, woman proposing marriage to man, happens. It was also the case in the movie The Proposal, wherein the lady had to marry the leading man to keep her job and so she was the one who proposed. My girlfriend is actually asking me informally if I was going to marry her, so to me it sounded like a proposal too. It's not a big deal though for me, whichever way it goes as long as both parties involve are happy with it.
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icesmile
@icesmile (7160)
• Romania
3 Mar 10
Sociologists say that even if the man make asking for marriage, the idea is induced in one way or another from woman.
cobrateacher
@cobrateacher (8432)
• United States
4 Mar 10
Hi, Ice! I'm really glad these old strictures are pretty much a thing of the past. Such strict gender roles are just plain silly. Everyone has to do as they wish!
marianna45
@marianna45 (1399)
• Romania
4 Mar 10
Why not? Why only men can to choose , if you feel that you have found the man of our lives, you try to give it to understand that you want to get married to him. I see nothing wrong with that, of course, not to force, not to insist, do not be ridiculous, I asked no man before marry me , but we never know in life, if he is uncertain or shy, you have to help him, even to tell them your opinion.