"Be safe. Have fun. Boys lie."
"You want somebody who's gonna always be the same. You can always count on them. Run from a moody man. And let me tell you, [my husband] is so steady. You always know what version you're gonna get of [him], and it's always a great version, and I am so glad that I ran from the moody man in my life,"
"So, that if I ever wanted to stay home and not work with kids, then we would have never gotten used to the standard of living that was required by two incomes," she explained. "So we lived so poor, and when I decided to stay home, we required a couple of years of a full-time salary into our savings, which then we were able to put on a down payment on a house, which made our costs of living low so that we could continue to live low off of one income, which was not much. It was considered poverty level."
A father's succinct rules—Be safe, have fun, and distrust adolescent romantic promises—served as a lasting behavioral guide. A mother's dating counsel prioritized steady, predictable partners and advised fleeing moody men to secure emotional reliability. The couple deliberately saved one partner's entire salary during dual-income, childless years, living frugally to avoid lifestyle inflation, fund a house down payment, and make one-income living feasible after choosing parenthood. Financial discipline reduced living costs and enabled a single-income household. An additional personal guideline warned against allowing others to pluck or wax the upper eyebrow.
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