# How would you deal with a SO like this?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-deal-with-a-so-like-this/790564>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 5, 2017, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-deal-with-a-so-like-this/790564 "2017-07-05T22:12:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-deal-with-a-so-like-this/790564/21 "2017-07-06T20:30:31Z")

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> [@Grrr](#):
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> I don’t know. Maybe I’m just naive, but I think as long as you have mutual trust and respect, I’d like to think the two people involved can make it work despite cultural differences.

Oh, _cultural_ differences by themselves are hardly an insurmountable obstacle. But in this case, they were the source of a much more fundamental difference in worldview. And that was the insurmountable problem.

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**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-deal-with-a-so-like-this/790564/22 "2017-07-11T16:08:31Z")

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> [@Guinastasia](#):
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> Says the guy who eats out of dumpsters.

And year old car mayonnaise.

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**Author:** ![anomalous1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@anomalous1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anomalous1)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-deal-with-a-so-like-this/790564/23 "2017-07-11T23:17:52Z")

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> [@Hari\_Seldon](#):
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> One of the things that attracted my wife to me was that she stood up for herself. I don’t think I could have dealt with that sort of submissiveness.

Nothing more attractive than a challenging woman that can do her own thing. I’m with you on that! The submissive stuff creeps me out.

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**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-deal-with-a-so-like-this/790564/24 "2017-07-13T00:43:54Z")

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> [@jtur88](#):
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> Never commit to a [Del] religious [/Del] person [Del]of any faith[/Del]. They are all irrational.

I kinda fixed that for ya.  
Best I could do at least.  
Realize, however, that such a policy is rather self-damning.  
–G!  
😃

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**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-deal-with-a-so-like-this/790564/25 "2017-07-13T01:55:55Z")

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> [@anomalous1](#):
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> The submissive stuff creeps me out.

Done right, it is sooo erotic. Submissive role playing, that is. Not permanent personality traits.

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