Kouklitsa

Don't laugh but there's something sexy about being 'kidnapped' as long as you know. My mother is still distressed that I'm 'almost 30' and not married. She threatened to send me to Tashkent to be kidnapped if I didn't hurry up and 'just do it.' So, my boyfriend and I were talking about how Georgian and Uzbek couples arrange 'kidnaps' to avoid huge wedding expenses. I asked if kidnapping was ever performed in Armenia. It is not a big Greek thing, but the Turks used to kidnap and sometimes kidnap the Greek girls they couldn't ask the father for. He said yes, it is known in Armenia, too, but not common. This seems to be a common Central Asian thing -- notice that? From Turkey, through Transoxania into Mongolia EVERYONE kidnapped brides. Apparently this is a popular vogue again in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan and with Azeri.... the rate of kidnapped brides have increased among the young and the poorer families who cannot pay doweries or trousseau. I thought kidnap would be more exciting than Vegas for sure....

I do agree to an extent. I am a non-Armenian [Pontic Greek] dating an Armenian guy. It's kinda hard to say because culturally we are still very similar but I do feel isolated when he speaks Armenian and he feels awkward when I am speaking Greek. We just started to teach each other each other's language because if we have children together, they WILL speak both Greek & Armenian (and English). We have this working in our favor: we're both Christians and both can reminisce about genocide and deportation. He had been dating American girls much to his mother's dismay. Then she goes crazy with happiness that he's dating me because I am definitely more 'culturally acceptable.' But I still feel...different? There is a lot that is the same and a lot that is different. I guess we have it easier than most? I love this guy to death! Armenian men definitely treat their women different than Greek men do. I don't think it's wrong to date outside your ethnicity (NOT 'race' because there are technically only 3 races) but it can get complicated. Love will find the way if it's true. You can't change the world or your family but you can choose to live happily for yourselves. If the two people truly love each other they can raise a child with a sense of identity in BOTH cultures. The hard part is convincing others who are not so open to the idea.

Almost pissed my pants....I was going to say this was Azeri sorryyyyy: http://www.bozosoft.com/mike/sheep/sheep1.jpg You know, just for when you're all alone out there and wondering "how am I going to pass the time"??

MIXALIS HATZIGIANNIS!!!!!!!!!!!! that's attractive to me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMjhe6gR55w ENOUGH SAID! ::sighs:: This boy could sing me the phone book. He is not handsome to me but VERY charismatic and poetic. He writes all his own songs and has eyes that can pierce a woman's heart. The first song is called "Xeria Psila" which means "Hands High". It's so romantic!! Since this is Hye Forum and not Greek forum I'll tell you what he sings briefly so you enjoy more than some guy singing in a foreign language video: "I don't know, daring, what love means, everyone says one word and it is enough, with you I learned to look for that something that makes 2 bodies last together... hands high and I reach everything, hands high give me to go up to God, in you I now believe, hands high and let's go up higher than love, hands up and come higher that's how i win your life in my life...the whole world goes around by your saying 'I love you', but one kiss is never enough, with you i learned how to break the verbs and look how many 'I love you's' call out from the silence....refrain: hands high....etc." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Hj9dukrFU (another one but has english)

Ah the "complex"! The facade usually takes shape as a complex that involves driving a black Audi or silver Acura, wearing lotsa gold and having overwhelming chest hair peeping out from beneath their shirt, etc...??? I could write a novel about the "complex".

Gamavor --- it's an inside secret that you have to be crazy to actually WANT TO BE with anyone from our part of the world! Anyone whose people spent time in Asia Minor are all a little touched in the head. I think our poor, heartbroken love got the better end of the deal leaving the drama

I am very sorry about your situation. I felt I might have had the same problem with my current boyfriend, but I am actually accepted because I guess I am a better fit for his family than his Colombian girlfriend. His mother refused to speak to him or be around him until he dumped her. So, guess what...he rebelled a little while and then dumped her. I am not Armenian but I date an Armenian. My parents are Greeks from Trapouzia (mom is from Rize). I know Greek have no problems with Armenian - just if I date a Turk! I could bring home a black guy faster - and trust me, I wouldn't bring home a black guy unless I just had a death wish. I did date a Turk once. He was one of my best relationships ever. Scary, right?! My Armo boy is a good boy, too. Armenian guys are like Greek guys but not as cheap on dates and better in the sack.