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[Who's Your Daddy?]

Do you married guys/gals get Korean acquaintances (not friends) giving you unsolicited marriage advice? I usually just nod and ignore (SNIP someone said), but sometimes it's funny. One of my co-workers, who isn't married, tells me what I should have my wife do. I think, you don't know my wife, and you're not married, and you're younger than me!

Things I've been told:

1. Does your wife cook you breakfast? You should have her cook you breakfast.

2. Oh, it's Solal, so you should buy your wife's parents presents. (Um, I did marry her, so maybe I'd know that!)

Anyways, if you guys/gals have any stories, I'm curious

[milspecs]

She doesn't cook you breakfast?????

[Missihippi]

Yeah what's up with that? She should be cooking you breakfast..

[air76]

[Skipperoo]

You should have her cook you breakfast.

[Senior]

I will probably marry a Korean simply for the breakfast thing.

[NYC_Gal]

I always cook my man breakfast. She should definitely cook you breakfast.

[sheriffadam]

I stopped reading after the breakfast thing, thats pretty much the whole point right there.

[tokkibunni8]

I have been told by several married Korean teachers to break up with my Korean bf when he enters the army. Was told it's what every Korean woman does. Good to know, eh?

[air76]

It is archaic to believe that a woman "should" cook her man breakfast. Sometimes I cook breakfast and sometimes she does....to tell the truth usually I do as I am better at cooking breakfast and she generally cooks dinner for the same reason. Neither of which are out of a sense of "duty."

Any man who marries for the sake of having someone to prepare him food should have a seriously long talk with himself in the mirror. As should any woman who marries simply to have a "provider."

To each his own, but living with the subservient house-wife type would drive me to jump off the balcony.

[bucheon bum]

[Lolimahro]

"Your husband should be the main breadwinner, because a man gets his identity from how well he can provide for his family."

This from my dear father.

I can't remember the marriage advice from complete strangers, because it's been crowded out by parenting advice. In Korea, that's mostly:

"Isn't your baby cooooold???" (As he is dressed in 4 layers of clothes and wrapped in a blanket.)