To me, it depends on how far you've gotten with your significant other. I would rather trust my family with something than some girl I just met a week ago. But, when a man is married, he is very much required to trust his wife over any one else, with anything. Otherwise, he can trust her to leave him and take half of his stuff. Besides, a wife is probably more trustworthy than my brother, unless it's something like sleeping and doing drugs. (There is alot of divorce in my family; my father divorced my brother's mother, my brother divorced some European woman, my mother divorced my other brother's father, and my step-mother divorced a guy in PA. So I've learned some things.)
However, this really only applies to men, because we're not really all that trustworthy. It's okay if a woman asks her sister to do an important job, because the husband probably won't care either way. We're just going to ask why the baby's turning blue. Here's an example, men watch kids in a different way than women. Women are great baby sitters because they do what they're supposed to, watch the kid. A man would just let the kid do what it wants, but instead listen. We don't have the energy to chase the kid around, but we can turn the TV down and keep a sub-conscious ear out for and abnormal yelling. Key words are "help" or "ow!", but thats about all we know. We teach through examples, rather than giving information and lectuing the kid, because we're impatient. If the kid wants to touch the stove, the mother would pull its hand away and give a definition of temperature, so now the kid knows he will be bored when he touches the stove. But, the father would tell the kid to go ahead and touch the stove, so the kid will know that his hand will burn if he touches the stove.
I agree with what you said. A wife is more trustworthy than a sibling. A sibling is more trustworthy than a girlfriend.
ReplyDeleteIt is important however that you know who you can trust.
I would have to agree with this. I mainly agree with the part when you said it depends on how long you are with your signifigant other. There somethings you can trust your family with and other things with you significant other.
ReplyDeleteI definately agree with some of what you said. Marriage is definately an important thing to consider in this type of situation. If you are willing enough to marry someone, it best be someone that respects you and you can always trust. The only problem with this post is that i find it kind of interesting that you think gender plays a large role. I believe it mostly resides on the individual in particular, not the sex of the spouse.
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