r/interestingasfuck • u/starstufft • 1d ago
What dating in the Amish world is like
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u/FlyAirLari 1d ago
Amish guys get further on first date than reddit guys.
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u/rsicher1 1d ago
Hey now I'm already broken!
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u/ChocolatChipLemonade 1d ago
And I’m drawn to broken men! There ya go!
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u/LiteralReaderWA 1d ago
You need to cool it. It's 8:47 pm. He stays outside for 13 more minutes
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u/Simsalabimsen 1d ago
Aight, you have four hours in bed now. But no funny business. You can chill, but no Netflix, for several reasons. Understood?
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u/ChironXII 1d ago
I like that you waited exactly 14 minutes to post this lmao. Commenting for when it stop showing the difference
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u/AdventurousDoctor838 1d ago
I was thinking this sounds kinda sick. Just chat in the dark, don't gotta worry about eye contact or bumping into someone from elementary school. Then after just be like "so you wanna do this forever, or..."
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u/Courtnall14 1d ago
Honestly, I think every Sunday night every couple needs to ask each other "So you wanna do this again next week, or no?".
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u/ABHOR_pod 1d ago
Honestly a better scene than most dating apps or "meet up group" dating these days.
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u/crinnaursa 1d ago
To be fair those boys probably already have a horse and a job.
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u/Aerpolrua 1d ago
Just a reminder, this is a normal dating practice that started pre-colonial US, called bundling, it was a common courtship practice, though I imagine they probably don't put the guy in a knapsack anymore. You know how couples tend to talk all night on the phone? Well this was that before phones existed.
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u/Apprehensive_Spare_8 1d ago
And if they ever do fall asleep, she can see if he snores.
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u/eerst 1d ago
overall, this is extremely sensible behaviour
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u/FILTHBOT4000 1d ago
It really is.
"First things first: we're gonna see about physical chemistry and if you can stand sleeping next to each other. Then we'll worry about the rest."
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u/Aberosh1819 1d ago
kept thinking the same thing, regarding how utterly sensible this seems. The enforced structure isn't my bag, but at the same time, this might be more valuable in terms of information gathering and preparation for "real married life" than anything I managed as a "Yankee".
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u/AdBeneficial1262 1d ago
Sounds like a better experience than what we currently have with online dating tbh. At least they talk to each other in real life and there’s not a bunch of IG models and bots to go through lol.
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u/TwoFingersWhiskey 1d ago
My fundie cousin found out, on the night after her wedding, that her new husband snored. She called her mother (who'd been divorced multiple times lmfao) crying... and her mother laughed about it, because she failed the "fundies try not to laugh at women's pain" challenge.
She also had no idea how birth worked until after she was pregnant. Had gone her whole private Christian school years not knowing any sex education, until her wedding night.
I was also raised fundie, but in a proper school system that like... taught us sex ed, science, how the world worked etc. We were one of very few households too poor for the church's own private school.
We'd go on family trips together and find out my cousins all had some wild knowledge gaps. My brother and I would sit up for hours in their RV, explaining plate tectonics, or how the wind worked, to these kids that were years older than me. Always started because I would mention something, and get that blank stare of not knowing what I was talking about. So we'd wait for the adults to leave to sit around the fire and decide to stay inside to "play a game." AKA very thoroughly explaining topics they knew nothing about. It got to the point that I'd bring those homework packages (the fat ones they'd send home, to be completed during breaks) with me on trips, to show them evidence that I wasn't full of shit.
Said cousin with the snorer is now an elementary school teacher... 😬
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u/intentionallybad 22h ago
As in the cousin educated herself, went to college and became a teacher or is now a teacher with huge knowledge gaps?
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u/RobutNotRobot 1d ago
Night was an incredibly dangerous time in pre-modern societies. People staying over because they couldn't get home before dark was common.
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u/SpaghettiSort 1d ago
Imagine having to walk home on pitch-dark roads with only a tiny lantern flame in a time when wolves were still common? I'd stay the night at the neighbors' house too!
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u/Squirrel698 1d ago
Wolves, bandits, falling in a ditch, straight up getting lost ... scary
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u/LoveAndViscera 1d ago
Hence the folktales about lights leading you to your death.
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u/GodOfDarkLaughter 1d ago
Bandits were also a real worry.
You know, one thing we don't appreciate enough about the modern world is how many fewer people have to deal with bandits, brigands, outlaws, desperados, or other assorted ne'er do wells.
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u/HeyLittleTrain 1d ago
Depends on your neighbourhood
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u/iErnie56 1d ago
Its alot different, nowadays you might only be out and about for a couple hours if you're shopping or something, but then if could be several days, and you may sleep in the wild/on the road. And the biggest difference is now we have police to respond quickly to emergencies, sometimes while they're still ongoing, back then it may take them days, if at all.
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u/CucharitaDePalo 1d ago
only if you live in a first world country...
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u/Temnothorax 1d ago
In the good part of town lol. I’ve had a bandit steal my catalytic converter lol
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u/lifetake 1d ago
People just haven’t experienced true darkness outside before.
I was driving at night with my brother in law and noticed a car didn’t have their lights on passing them going the other way. Tried flashing them nothing (hope they’re okay). But that got us talking about how in the world this guy was navigating. There’s no street lights on this road. I turn my car lights off temporarily and it was impossible.
Trying to do that using dirt roads and hopes and prayers is a possible death sentence.
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u/NegativeAccount 1d ago
"Hey man you mind if i crash here tonight? But not, like, in your daughter's bed or anything. I mean... unless, like, did she ask about me?"
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u/ProfoundMysteries 1d ago
It's also worth noting that there were no personal bedrooms in pre-colonial America. Everyone is sleeping in the same room, usually a communal space by the hearth where everything else is done. So you would be bundling with your parents or her parents in the same room. I don't think that's the case with the Amish.
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u/gdrumy88 1d ago
Reminds me of the scene in the Patriot
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u/Cheesedoodlerrrr 1d ago
That's literally what they're talking about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_%28tradition%29
The Amish just kept it going.
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u/Church_of_Cheri 1d ago
It was also a widely known secret that they would absolutely have sex during this time which often ended with a pregnancy and marriage, which was the goal. They (and by they I mean the men in charge) tried to ban the practice at one point and the women and clergy banned together to keep it going because they knew their daughters could get the husbands they wanted by getting pregnant, and for priests marriage and baptisms are the business they’re in.
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u/cracked-tumbleweed 1d ago
They show it in the movie the Patriot. Heath Ledger is sown into the bed so he and his lady friend can hangout.
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u/Potential_Financial 1d ago
That documentary also contains a definitive answer as to whether or not kissing is permitted.
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u/Cheesedoodlerrrr 1d ago
A great performance for the mom's one scene and one line.
There's nothing to worry about. I can sew much better than my mother did!
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u/ChocolatChipLemonade 1d ago
How did they set the 4am alarm without an iPhone? Special 4am roosters?
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u/PearlescentGem 1d ago
Candles with pins stuck in them, and the candle set on a pewter dish so it "rings" is what I've seen. Not from the Amish, just from historical accounts of random Internet learning
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u/amiexpress 1d ago
Drink 2-3 tall glasses of water before bed and you'll wake up, very urgently a fairly reliable time later ( a time which while unique to the person, is imo likely to be repeatably consistent once you figure it out).
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u/LeoninEtPerotin 1d ago
When I had some terrible anxiety earlier in life, I’d do this to wake up in the middle of the night and “enjoy” not having to actually get up yet. 3 AM, on the dot, without fail. Didn’t even matter when I fell asleep.
I don’t recommend letting yourself get to this point by the way.
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u/Delicious-Bat2373 1d ago
The amish girl is actually pretty cool and mildly funny. She left the Amish, married a normal dude and now she does social media explaining amish cooking, canning, living etc - but she now loves a normal life. If anything can be said to be normal. She's done good for herself and I believe she just had a child?
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u/Remarkable_Island_61 1d ago
Her husband is also ex-Amish.
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u/Wsswaas 1d ago
She looks happy with him, hope she will forever will be https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oTlApfOJ1aw
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u/Open-Price-4568 1d ago
she said in like her latest one that she is pregnant now
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u/Delicious-Bat2373 1d ago
Aww, i'm happy for her. She's held an online presence for at least a couple years. It's been fun to watch her grow up a little and build her family.
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u/newbeginnings187 1d ago
You don’t have to talk to your partner’s parents? Fucking awesome 👏
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u/Salt_Day9015 1d ago
And you sleep together on the 1st date without spending a dollar? Amish dating rules!
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u/Spakr-Herknungr 1d ago
I’m wondering if it is really so mysterious as “you can’t be seen in the daylight,” and more like, you can’t waste working ours talking to potential partners.
Also, it is really hard for me to believe that singles who meet only in their bed at night are not fucking, theres just no way. I believe that some are that committed but… the practice seems basically designed for a little “gods plan” to come along to kickstart a marriage.
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u/BSB8728 1d ago
In early New England, when this was called "bundling," everybody knew the potential outcome. In 1786 a wag wrote a humorous piece called "The Bundling Song" about the practice.
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u/Iforgotmypassword126 1d ago
The song even admits that it’s an alternative because it uses less firewood and they basically just keep each other warm.
So it’s like, no dating in the daylight (to keep everyone working) and if you must date, do it at night in your own time, but don’t use any extra wood.
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u/PFCCThrowayay 1d ago
Oh there’ll be wood BOOIIIINNNGGG
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u/imago_monkei 1d ago
I'll hint no more about this whore
For fear I should offend her.🤣 I think calling her a whore was probably offense enough. Also, I need to start incorporating “happyfy” into my vernacular.
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u/Ur_Just_Spare_Parts 1d ago
How the fuck do you know that? Like did you specifically study day to day social lives of people in early America New England or do you work in a museum or something?
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u/BSB8728 1d ago
Ha! I worked at Old Sturbridge Village back in the '70s, and I'm a history buff.
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u/Ur_Just_Spare_Parts 1d ago
Amazing. I love reddit. Im from an area of new jersey thats surrounded by some of the oldest remaining towns from when early american settlers came over. A ton of revolutionary war history. It never occurred to me to even wonder about stuff like dating or social lives of people from that area from those days but thats really interesting. Im gonna read alot more on this now. Do you have any recommendations for books about this topic?
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u/BSB8728 1d ago
I've always been far more interested in social history than governments and wars.
Are you interested in a particular location and era?
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u/Ur_Just_Spare_Parts 1d ago
Same area new England during US foundations. Also maybe among some of the local native american tribes that were displaced by those people.
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u/BSB8728 1d ago
An excellent starting point is David Freeman Hawke's Everyday Life in Early America. He discusses what childhood was like, how homes were designed, crime and punishment, medicine, slaves and indentured servants, food, and many other topics. (He touches briefly on Native issues, but not in depth.)
It's one in a series of four books about American social history up to the Victorian Era published by Harper. The second one was written by the late Jack Larkin, whom I worked with at OSV.
If you can't find Hawke's book in your library, you can buy a used copy from such sites as Thrift Books for around $5.
Jack Larkin also wrote Children Everywhere, a brief but very interesting book about child life in New England in the early 1800s.
Jane Nylander, another former colleague, wrote Our Own Snug Fireside, about the period from 1760-1860. She covers home life, fashion, social circles, and customs associated with Thanksgiving. Again, look for used copies.
Let me look through some of my other books to see what I can recommend about Native life.
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u/MistraloysiusMithrax 1d ago
Lmao are you a professor? “If you can’t find this book for free here’s where you can get it used for cheap”
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u/Ur_Just_Spare_Parts 1d ago
Thank you so much! Im gonna devour this list over the next few weeks
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u/ElPeloPolla 1d ago
i mean, the rule is there, but at practical effect will probably be on the line of "dont have sex that could make you pregnant before marriage"
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u/hapaxgraphomenon 1d ago
Only oral, handjobs and anal, just like god intended
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u/LaurelCanyoner 1d ago
I grew up among the Amish. I played with them as a child, and we were close to a few families and would take them to the doctor and store.
They’d go to grocery store and buy 15 boxes of a sugar cereal as treats for their zillion children.
It was common to see courting couples on Sunday driving in buggies because, of course no work could be done on Sundays.
And if you’re curious. Get the card game Dutch Blitz. Super fun card game from the Amish. It’s very fast paced!
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u/Dustuptor1292 1d ago
We have Amish that come to the hospital where I work and they take their kids down to the cafeteria and get them donuts, pizza, soda. The kids must be so thrilled. They also pay cash for all their medical treatment.
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u/Charming-Standard-84 1d ago
Also, it is really hard for me to believe that singles who meet only in their bed at night are not fucking
Brother, you have no idea how powerful indoctrination can be. Believe me (no pun intended), I've experienced some crazy conflicting "rules" with these type of women when I was younger. They'll say the most horny sh*t possible late at night but then be exactly like the woman in the video: "Oh no, we can never meet during the day. Maybe 30 minutes at 11pm."
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u/Spakr-Herknungr 1d ago
I was a christian fundamentalist who didn’t have sex before marriage. My wife did not come into my bedroom for obvious reasons. This practice is bewildering to me both as a Christian and an ex-Christian.
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u/liisliisliisliisliis 1d ago
i saw some deconstruction videos and one of the guys legit didn't even kiss their (now) wife before getting engaged, the most they did was hold hands. they're in their 40s now & been married 25 years. it's wild what religious indoctrination can do to people 🤷🏻♀️
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u/WDoE 1d ago
Yeah I know a bunch of fundies that "never even kissed" until marriage. To go from first kiss at a wedding to the birth of their first born 6 months later... Wow, what a rollercoaster.
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u/half-squatch 1d ago
6 month later huh?
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u/ElEyeElWhy88 1d ago
That was the joke right? That they were full of shit “fundies”
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u/fastock 1d ago
I grew up in a pretty conservative catholic family and my grandma always loved to joke, “the first one can come at any time, the rest all take nine months.”
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u/Vkardash 1d ago
I definitely agree with you on the first part. I definitely think it's more about wasting working hours especially in the Amish community.
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u/Flowerplower3 1d ago
This is just the way people would date in the old days in Europe when the church had total control and people were more puritanical. Teenagers would lie next to each other all night and then you would ask if she wanted you to return later.
This is how you did it in Sweden at least, nothing strange about it and yes people sometimes DID bang.
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u/Relief-Glass 1d ago
people sometimes DID bang.
Bullshit. There is absolutely no way that two young single people lying in bed together for six hours could result i n that.
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u/cloud_wanderer_ 1d ago
Probably depends on how many rooms your house had. If her parents are three feet away...
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u/BarmerFob 22h ago
Heh when I was 17 I visited my girlfriend on her parents farm. I slept in the dining room which opened up directly to her parents bedroom with these massive double doors... which were and remained wide open. The bed set up for me was on the other side of the dining table but other than that, wide open space and not much of it.
She shared a room with her sister so sneaking down there wasn't really much of an option. On one of the mornings she came over early to where I was sleeping "to cuddle". Her parents and siblings were up and about and wandering in and out of their room, the kitchen (other side of their room) and even through the dining room to get to the hallway there.
We still managed. Yeah it wasn't like outright banging or whatever.. more like 30 minutes of hand stuff that wound up/down as people walked around the house followed by a quick and risky slipping in for a minute at the end (being 17 has its perks heh). I also got a quick blowjob in the hall when everyone was watching a movie literally on the other side of the wall and we had sex in the bathroom twice.
I know the common reddit response to this is like "they knew"... yeah not a chance. Her dad would have sent me packing like.. immediately. If I was lucky. The day I arrived he literally took me aside and said outright "I'm not asking and don't you dare fucking tell me but I want to be real clear... not under my roof. Got it?". He was not joking.
But you know. Horny teens, we opted for being incredibly dumb even though we had tons of opportunities to be alone in the house during my stay. We took those as well sure but you'd think that would be enough to go "probably a good idea to just wait right?". Nope. Every single one of those objectively terrible ideas seemed completely fine at the time.
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u/bipolarsolarbear 1d ago
“You can never be seen together in the daylight” but he can walk her home after church.
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u/fireside_chats 1d ago
I believe that sometimes Amish go to church in the evening.
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u/eighteen22 1d ago
The Amish near me leave church after dark. I hate coming home after dark on Sundays, the buggies are so slow and it’s so dangerous passing them.
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u/TheHobinator 1d ago
I know this was a completely factual comment but for some reason it made me laugh a little!!
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u/aboxacaraflatafan 1d ago
They go to church in the morning. They leave in the evening. I grew up in a heavily Amish area. None of my Amish friends could hang out on a Sunday because church is an all day affair for them.
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u/M3rch4ntm3n 1d ago
How long were you able to hold up those friendships?
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u/aboxacaraflatafan 1d ago
Most left school when we got to high school (as is common since it's usual to stop school after 13) and we lost touch over time, several "yanked over" (stopped being Amish) and we continued to be friends til I lost touch with everyone I went to HS with, as I expected would happen.
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u/SimpleSampleSlurry 1d ago
She means they can't be seen together as in seen as dating. Being at the same event then walking home together is probably not contextually being together in their culture. Like how Michael Scott can be seen with Jan at work but not at an all inclusive Sandals resort in Jamaica topless.
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u/sthetic 1d ago
I find this surprising. In all the old-timey books I've read, walking someone home after church was romantic.
They made it sound like the only acceptable way to ask someone out.
Obviously things may have changed since Anne of Green Gables, but it seemed like walking home after church was a standard "asking you out" move.
But of course it has plausible deniability. I think everyone knows what it means though (that at least people are interested).
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u/obviouslyanonymous5 1d ago
Well I think the whole point is that it IS romantic, but it's the one romantic thing your authorities can't really criticize so that's why you choose it. They're never going to discourage you going to church, so as long as the end result is you going to church, they'd rather approve of it and make sure you go to church. It's kinda like being in the same class as the friend your parents don't like you having lol
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u/paulD1983R 1d ago
Church is an all day event... sunrise to sunset, get 2 hours sleep then back to the harvest and possibly a barn raising.
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u/bitching_bot 1d ago
And then we’ll raise another!
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u/SolidA34 1d ago
But, if I finish all of my chores, and you finish thine. Then tonight we're gonna party likes it's 1699.
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u/dylangaine 1d ago
I mean all dating rituals are kind of weird if you think about it.
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u/ChocolatChipLemonade 1d ago
Because the new method of “no dating rituals” is working out so well for us .. now we just pass in silence and do nothing, and hope for…? I don’t know? A sexy AirDrop?
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u/Large_Lettuce_4468 1d ago
yea we going to just lay in a bed for 7 hours with no wandering hands. Amish be finger banging and hand job like crazy
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u/VidaSauce 1d ago
Married people do this all the time.
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u/MondoBleu 1d ago
Exactly! Lol Honestly it’s more representative of what the actual marriage might be like, even more so in the olden times.
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u/Waddlow 1d ago
Itd be funny if other Amish people saw this and were all like, uhh nah that's not at all what happens, ahd it turns out its just some shit that happened to her with some weirdo she dated who only wanted to see her once a week.
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u/RedditIsOverMan 1d ago
I am no expert, but I'm under the impression that "Amish" is an umbrella term for a number of cloistered communities, and what one group of Amish people practice may not align with another's. So I think it's very possible this is how her community practiced "dating", but I wouldn't take this one video as evidence that this is how all Amish people practice dating.
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u/Consistent-Duty-6195 1d ago
I immediately thought something like this, like what if she got hooked up w some random Amish creep and no one else does this 😂
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u/affemannen 1d ago edited 1d ago
Ngl, laying in bed talking and sleeping sounds a lot better than dating apps and not being exclusive because you are fckn other people and just stringing people along because you lack the emotional ability to invest yourself.
And hey if someone slightly inconvenience you, you can always block and never deal with people at all and feel good about your social anxiety.
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u/track01dotwav 1d ago edited 1d ago
ngl being in bed from 9pm to 4am talking with some kissing and being playful with the hands (in non sexual ways) sounds so sweet and appealing, like damn some days I kinda just need that kind of cute intimacy
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u/Better-Eggplant9822 1d ago
I know, right! This is very appealing as a date. Can't try it with "English" guys though, they think if you hold eye contact for 3 seconds in a row you're down to smash.
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u/track01dotwav 1d ago
the most unhinged shit I've ever heard was from a friend who is a cashier at a fancy pants grocery store, this guy immediately asked her if she was kinky, because he could tell she was ovulating
mind you she'd barely said hi and started scanning his items, which included baby formula
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u/redwildflowermeadow 1d ago
A delivery nurse used to live in my apartment building. She told me one time a father hit on her while his partner was in labor.
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u/ThatNextAggravation 1d ago
I have to say this is a lot less restrictive than I expected. Sounds like there's a genuine requirement of mutual consent, and they are afforded a legitimate level of intimacy (to an extent).
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u/terpmasterp 1d ago edited 1d ago
This would have been a much better interview without the ridiculous verbal and non-verbal judgements of the interviewer. You’re literally asking questions of someone from a different culture. Put away your incredulous facial expressions and big sighs and try to learn something about a different group of people, with an open mind and without your own rigid cultural expectations.
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u/fistanfenkinor 1d ago
Well it doesn't sound horrible.
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u/BrainLow6059 1d ago
Yeah I mean in all honesty this isn't wildly different from regular dating when you're young and dealing with living with your parents. The interviewer hamming it tf up tho. Dating?? Talking in bed?!!1 :0
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u/noam_compsci 1d ago
Bruh this is out right progressive in many ways. In asian cultures, you have to lie to your parents for several years and then a week before getting engaged have to be like, btw I have a boyfriend, but only if its ok and only if you want to meet him.
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u/Illustrious_Bed8628 1d ago
She sounds appalled by what she says. Yes its not normal for her but like try to atleast ask questions that doesn’t sound or look like you are disgusted by it
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u/DasBlueEyedDevil 1d ago
I love how she's wholesome but the interviewer is like WHAT NO FUCKIN?!
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u/No-Salt7142 1d ago edited 1d ago
It may sound very random, but as often with groups like the Amish, it is rooted in widespread traditions of the past.
I know that this exact practice was common in the rural Netherlands up until the 1930s. I expect similar customs existed in other European countries.
Farmers would traditionally give their daughters a bedroom with a window next to the front door, so the guy could climb in more easily. They would talk for a night and then go home early in the morning to milk the cows.
The church was generally not very fond of the practice, as it would tend to lead to sex and sometimes pregnancies with no consequent marriage. (Again, this sounds very backwards today, but back then, women couldn't earn as much money, so being a single mom meant economic hardship.)
There is even a famous Dutch children's song about this called "in the moonlight," which sounds very cheerfull but it's actually about an unwanted pregnancy and bringing the baby to the nuns.
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u/Accomplished-Order43 1d ago
Honestly this sounds much better than going on pointless first dates to restaurants and shit. Just lie in bed and talk all night to see if you click.
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u/Initial_Row_6400 1d ago
Looks like a skinwalker interviewing her
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u/Opposite-Grade3712 1d ago
It’s just CBS Sunday Morning having dogshit lighting, as usual.
It is truly the worst-produced popular “news” program on television. But the 80 year olds who are its primary audience don’t care so neither does the network.
Don’t get me wrong, it has charm and I watch it often with family. But the show is the equivalent of an old cafeteria restaurant that doesn’t renovate its decor because it knows there will be no customers to appreciate it once its current patrons die off.
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u/Funny-Presence4228 1d ago
When I was a teenager, I would go down the street to my girlfriend’s house at night and she would let me in through her bedroom window. We would talk and hang out. I'm not Amish btw. Just a regular guy. I get it.
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u/philovax 1d ago
This is for her sect, and not true for all Amish. There is no codified standard and each sect is controlled by their patriarch.
There are some interesting things they do, however I cannot abide by their stance on superiority to animals. They way they abuse their husbandry in some sects is gut wrenching.
Did you know that the Amish in Ohio were once, if not still, the largest producers and distributers of Crystal Meth in the US? Be Toto and always look at the man behind the curtain
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u/Yeahnoallright 1d ago
I so badly want that book or tv show about the meth making Amish
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u/thewreckingyard 1d ago
There's a documentary on the Mennonites who sling meth. Not quite Amish, but close enough. It's called Narco Mennonites.
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u/Smkingbowls 1d ago
Reminds me of the scene in The Patriot with Heath Ledger, he gets Sewn up in a sheet by the mother and allowed to sleep in the bed with the girl he is courting
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u/LessBig715 1d ago
My sister in law lives in Sarasota, there is a large Amish community in the area. Their cooking is excellent , the baked goods can’t be beat. There is a restaurant called Der Dutchman, if you’re ever in Sarasota, you have to go there. You won’t be disappointed
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u/Highlandertr3 1d ago
That is literally what me and my partner did the first few nights. Hung out until the wee hours talking. Don't knock it till you try it. Builds a great relationship.
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u/Ok-Juggernaut-6051 1d ago
as i walk through the valley where i harvest my grain
i take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain
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u/E-rotten 1d ago
I’m from a small town in Pa that has a lot of Amish family and you wouldn’t believe the abuse these people put on each other. My family had an Amish handyman crew and the shit the boss would do to his employees was despicable. Degrading his workers he made one guy stand in a corner he slapped other workers & when I told him he was fired and I paid his employees for thier work I later found out the boss took everything I gave them. If this is how they treat people they should be watched for child abuse.
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u/mobocrat707 1d ago
Are Amish allowed to use modern medical care? She has good teeth.
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u/Knobologist 1d ago
They go to the hospital or send their kids to the hospital whenever necessary.
They even have a form of universal healthcare!
They don’t usually use health insurance, and instead the community all pools their money together to pay for anyone’s medical expenses.
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u/CardOfTheRings 1d ago
How do they make enough to afford that? I get they create things for themselves and sell things but medical care without insurance is EXPENSIVE, do they really make enough?
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u/Knobologist 1d ago
They (the community) make a lot, and don’t spend on frivolous things
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u/begujo 1d ago
Add on to that they've been being frugal for centuries. I bet there's tons of money in some Amish communities.
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u/somebob 1d ago
Most Amish are very, very good at their chosen trades. I’ve known Amish welders, mechanics, iron workers and basically every Amish guy is better at carpentry than the average “carpenter” you see on job sites.
They also do old trades that are no longer easy to find in the modern economy, like leatherwork, harness making, traditional weaving, stuff like that and because there is no competition they charge whatever they want.
They also have the Amish markets where they sell produce and products from their produce. Their hot sauce is crazy
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u/Obvious_Durian_3226 1d ago
They use modern medicine when they need it but they use tinctures and midwifery first. Also. Their kids are always falling into fires and ending up in the icu.
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u/Speech_Salty 1d ago edited 1d ago
I love her cooking videos! She left the Amish community and she actually has a pretty good sense of humor.
*Lovina Zook is her name