Japanese women share what they consider the best ways to persuade, pressure and in some cases outright trick a man into marrying them, displaying the expected Machiavellian guile as well as some quite traditional or even sweet sentiments.
The ranking, with the percentage of women agreeing with the method:
1. Have him meet your parents (100%)
2. Cook for him a lot (80.6%)
3. Tell him you want to get married by a certain age (73.8%)
4. Keep talking about the happy marriages your friends enjoy (57.3%)
5. Go to a “bridal fair” (44.7%) [an exhibition wedding held by marriage venues]
6. Propose (41.7%)
7. Talk about what you’d do after you have children (39.8%)
8. Go with him to look at rings (37.9%)
9. Go with him to look at furniture (34%)
10. Secretly enlist the aid of his parents (28.2%)
A few items in the rest of the list even border on romantic – “tell him you can’t live without him” (21.4%), “tell him he’s no good without you” (27.2%), although it is interesting to note that the latter method outranks the former.
Also appearing in the lower reaches of the list are some rather alarming methods – such as “lie and say you are pregnant.” Although this did come dead last, 2.9% of women in the survey still thought it was a great way of tricking a man into marriage.
Other underhanded methods thought suitable included “lie and say another man proposed to you” (13.6%), “when he asks you to do something, tell him you’ll do it if he marries you” (12.6%) and “lie and say you are thinking of returning to your hometown” (10.7%).
That over a tenth of these women thought a lie a suitable basis for marriage probably suggests great caution is required…
10. Secretly enlist the aid of his parents (28.2%)
Also, the #3 way to find yourself in a romantic comedy.
I’d be surprised if these women actually practiced what they preached. Women are pretty manipulative, but I doubt any of them would allow themselves to be married to someone they knew is easily tricked.
I don’t take women I f♥♥k to meet my mom.
I take the woman who supports me 3rd, and my future kids first to meet my family.
If a woman is #1 too herself, she deserves to be fucked to learn how life makes her #3 as well as her own individual like I am.
1st person views, are full of faults.
2nd person views, are full of dreams and wishes.
3rd person viewed relationships are the REAL picture.
4th person viewed as time, so start working on it okay?
WTF? No SHOTGUN MARRIAGE? The parents of the Bride will force the Guy to marry the gal by aiming a gun because like unpredictable situation eg. being Pregnant after sex.
I was thinking the same thing. But it’s Japan, so there’s no guns, except maybe BB guns. It’ll have to be marriage at swordpoint.
Where does “get pregnant by him” fall in the list?