Falling in Love Wisely (If you plan to get married and have children)
1. Fall in love with someone whose mother tongue is different from yours. Then you will give your children the tremendous gift of natural bilingualism.
2. Do not fall in love with someone with a history of mental illness. First, that can be inherited. Second, mental illness affects parenting.
3. Do not fall in love with someone whose own parents are divorced. Plenty of research on this. See, for example, Understanding the Divorce Cycle: The Children of Divorce in their Own Marriages
4. Do not fall in love with someone with debt (unless you have the means to pay it off).
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Any other universals?
Tags: bilingualism, divorce, mental illness
May 12th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
A picky eater, someone who has different beliefs in religion, health and the like may not seem like a big deal, till you have children. Think about your standards for life after children and see if that person fits into that vision.