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Master Don Juan
How do you explain the exceptions to the dynamic?
My maternal grandparents got together the year she became 17 and he became 22, in summer 1951. At this point my great-grandmother had already been trying to set my grandmother up with guys from well-off families on their way up (who were decent/good looking from what I remember of the pictures), but it apparently didn't bite on my grandmother. Instead she got together with my grandfather who had neither any particular education, career or any big material ambitions and who came from a pretty poor, during a period even wretched background. They'd lived in the same area for a while and then they saw each other on a ferry and started talking. They married, had 3 kids and stayed together for around 50 years until they died.
No one and no material gain compelled her to get with or stay with my grandfather, instead like I said my great-grandmother - who by the way disdained my grandfather, lol - was trying to make her act hypergamously with other guys, but it didn't work. How can this be accounted for with theories of hypergamy beyond just "sweeping it under the rug" as an exception without a deep and nuanced real world explanation?
My maternal grandparents got together the year she became 17 and he became 22, in summer 1951. At this point my great-grandmother had already been trying to set my grandmother up with guys from well-off families on their way up (who were decent/good looking from what I remember of the pictures), but it apparently didn't bite on my grandmother. Instead she got together with my grandfather who had neither any particular education, career or any big material ambitions and who came from a pretty poor, during a period even wretched background. They'd lived in the same area for a while and then they saw each other on a ferry and started talking. They married, had 3 kids and stayed together for around 50 years until they died.
No one and no material gain compelled her to get with or stay with my grandfather, instead like I said my great-grandmother - who by the way disdained my grandfather, lol - was trying to make her act hypergamously with other guys, but it didn't work. How can this be accounted for with theories of hypergamy beyond just "sweeping it under the rug" as an exception without a deep and nuanced real world explanation?
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