Despite my complaints that there's no singles' scene in my home ward the whole marriage thing is obviously accomplished as all of my YW peers are now - yup - married. I can't think of any one (other than myself) that is not currently engaged or married. To make it double-sad, several of those girls have been married, divorced, and re-married in that time. (Though I certainly don't care to sign up for that particular marriage subscription plan, thank you very much.)
Here are the common ways a single lass finds a candidate companion in northeastern PA:
- Sugar[less] Daddies - Yup, in what should have caused a greater scandal than it did, one of the girls actually married one of the guys whose age is comparable to her father's age. She's happier than I've ever seen her, but it's still just creepy.
- Sent to Utah - no joke, several of the girls were sent to Utah with the express purpose of finding a husband. Was it for the college education? Nope, some didn't even bother with the pretense and just skipping the process of applying to a college all together. These girls just went out there and hung out looking for husbands. The scary thing? It worked. And once again, in their defense, a few actually obtained community-college degrees prior to their stint in the happy hunting grounds.
- Dating Classifieds - the most successful way of finding a husband when living in bankrupt PA apparently is to do the online dating thing. A few of the marriages have ended in divorce with kids, but for the most individuals it seems to have worked out quite well. Husbands have been fetched everywhere from upstate New York to Indianapolis. This just seems a little too mail-order-bride for my tastes.
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