To settle, that it was better than being alone.

My mom's advice from the 50's . Always pay for the meal , always be the one that opens & holds the door , ladies first . . . I know what modern women look for : Equality & "Mutual" Respect . It's either taking turns paying for the evening , or Dutch-Treat .

On another subject , "If you don't remember what you were thinking about , then it was a lie". Big Bad Lie that should have been forgotten , if that was true !

"If you really love someone, you won't want anyone else."

“If he teases you, it’s a sign that he likes you.” This statement was said often to make me “feel better” for being bullied. Basically take it as a compliment that a guy makes fun of you. What are we teaching here? In order to be acceptable to a guy, he must tease you and you must take it? I never understood that.

God will balance things out....ugh. give it to the Lord. Trust in god.

My family is from Sicily. I lived 2 separate ways. I never listened to anything they said. I felt suffocated and couldn't wait to book out of there. I couldn't conform and still don't.

Since those that try to give me advice out of love always complaint that I don't fucking listen. No bad, bad, bad advice that I remember. Greatest advice ever? "50 percent of something is larger that 100 percent of nothing." I am so glad that I listened that one time. I always been the kind of person that do not discuss anything until after the fact. Kind of a solo act were blame can be put on one sole individual. That way "I did it to myself" is a true statement and not bitching.

"Dumb yourself down for the man, don't argue, wait on him hand and foot, be "smart" if he cheats..." yada yada old wives' shit. If I didn't listen, maybe I would have saved myself from some terrible relationships of my younger days.

I've never gotten relationship advice because I've never really shown interest in sex. I guess my parents were contributors to that because they are still together and hate each other. "Until death do us part."

The entire fairytale stories we are lead to believe.
Knight in shining armor, white picket fences, friends forever...
In the end, we are a species programmed to perpetuate. It is what it is.
Women scope out men just as much, if not more, than men scope out women, they don't get caught doing it as easily. Looking for the upgrade or best suitor if she is not 90%+ happy in her current situation. She'll rarely downgrade.

When my now ex-husband was abusive, I was to go back to him and "serve him like it says in the bible." This was from my mother. She really believes that shit...

Don't break up with the bf who thinks yelling is okay. (Thanks, Mom, but I don't take relationship advice from codependents who married sex-offenders they met on the internet.)

That I’ll never find someone at my current weight who will accept me. And she was a therapist and my step aunt. I feel bad for her patients.

My ex predicted I would marry a woman who needed me....sooooo wrong I need competent compatibility or as the Japanese put it : " NOURISHING PARTNERSHIP "

When I was in my mid teens (1973) my mom's family had a reunion, and two of mom's sisters and their families brought my sisters and I along with them to Florida for the reunion. Mom had died a few months before and this prompted the semiannual family reunions. One of my uncles gave me the worst advice ever, but for the time it was pretty normal. He told me to never let a boy/man know that I was smarter than he was. It would destroy my chances of finding a husband.