Romance, Chinese-Style

• Most people don't date until university or later.
• On nice days, we see lots of couples sitting, cuddling, on the campus grass.
• Young people don't know their parents' love story...it would be to embarrassing, too personal to share.
• Therefore young people get their ideas about falling in love from...yep, movies.
  
• It's pretty darn tough for believing young ladies to find a believing mate.
• Chinese don't date around so much. It's more likely that once you start dating, you'll stay together and eventually marry.
• The marriage starts when the couple is legally married by the government. The wedding dinner reception may be months, even years later, or never.
• Women better be married by age 30 or...eee...it's not looking good for you. Big disappointment to your family.
• Older unmarried men are called "bare sticks".
• It is extremely rare for divorced people to remarry, especially if they have a kid.
• We know of several long-distance marriages; the husband and wife are indefinitely working in different cities.
• People notice that Drew & I have something deeper to our marriage...it's a testimony.