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哪些男人嫁不得 神父教妳七招

 黃文正紐約時報報導

現代婚姻大不易,如何才能找到一個可以託付終身的理想老公?美國新澤西州天主教神父派特.康諾(Pat Connor,79歲),幫人排解婚姻疑難雜症已有40年經驗,他有一套「哪些人嫁不得?」的獨門挑男理論,建議女性在深陷情網前,最好先據此仔細檢驗男 方,以免後悔莫及。以下是他的七個忠告:

首先,「別嫁給沒有朋友的男人,因為他勢必缺乏婚姻所需要的親密能力。」派特諮詢過的男性中,有很多人都沒什麼朋友。所謂物以類聚,從對方交往的朋友,便可約略看出其性情一二。

其次,「他的金錢觀如何?是否揮霍無度?會不會吝嗇?」婚姻觸礁常因金錢問題,女人勤儉持家,但男人卻有十張信用卡,這樣的婚姻肯定沒辦法持久。

第三,「他會否過度依戀母親?」當他要做決定時,例如要去哪度蜜月?不找妳商量,卻跑去問老媽。「我聽過不少案例,有人甚至會帶母親一塊去度蜜月。」

第四,他有沒有幽默感?「我的臨床心理醫師朋友說,大部分婚姻都是被沈默給殺死,而非暴力。」強悍寡言的男人雖然迷人,但終究會對婚姻帶來毀滅性的影響。

第五,「別嫁給有性格缺陷的人,以為妳可改變他。」現在的他常酗酒,或有其他不良習性,如果娶了一個好女人,他就會安定下來?康諾坦率指出,結婚後,男人還是原來那個人,不僅不會改掉壞毛病,恐怕只會更變本加厲。

第六,「好好地理性檢視他的家族,」妳會更了解他,以及他對女性的態度。「他的家族是否有人離婚?家人是否有種族歧視、兩性偏見?他的生命價值觀是否與妳相似?」

最後,「他是否擁有一個好人的性格特質?」例如願意寬恕、讚美、有禮?或者,他可能成為一個騙子?容易失控抓狂?甚至會妒忌妳?行事鬼祟?

康諾常受邀為情竇初開的高中女生演說,他笑說,聽完他這套理論後,女生常抗議說,若按照他的標準,那簡直沒有男人可嫁了。

不過,他也沒法度,因為「人生原本就不公平嘛!」

Op-Ed Columnist

An Ideal Husband

Published: July 6, 2008

This weekend, we celebrate our great American pastime: messy celebrity divorces.

There’s the Christie Brinkley/Peter Cook fireworks on Long Island and the Madonna/Guy Ritchie/A-Rod Roman candle in New York.

So how do you avoid a relationship where you end up saying, “The man who I was living with, I just didn’t know who he was” — as Brinkley did in court when talking about her husband’s $3,000-a-month Internet porn and swinger site habit? (Not to mention the 18-year-old mistress/assistant.)

Father Pat Connor, a 79-year-old Catholic priest born in Australia and based in Bordentown, N.J., has spent his celibate life — including nine years as a missionary in India — mulling connubial bliss. His decades of marriage counseling led him to distill some “mostly common sense” advice about how to dodge mates who would maul your happiness.

“Hollywood says you can be deeply in love with someone and then your marriage will work,” the twinkly eyed, white-haired priest says. “But you can be deeply in love with someone to whom you cannot be successfully married.”

For 40 years, he has been giving a lecture — “Whom Not to Marry” — to high school seniors, mostly girls because they’re more interested.

“It’s important to do it before they fall seriously in love, because then it will be too late,” he explains. “Infatuation trumps judgment.”

I asked him to summarize his talk:

“Never marry a man who has no friends,” he starts. “This usually means that he will be incapable of the intimacy that marriage demands. I am always amazed at the number of men I have counseled who have no friends. Since, as the Hebrew Scriptures say, ‘Iron shapes iron and friend shapes friend,’ what are his friends like? What do your friends and family members think of him? Sometimes, your friends can’t render an impartial judgment because they are envious that you are beating them in the race to the altar. Envy beclouds judgment.

“Does he use money responsibly? Is he stingy? Most marriages that founder do so because of money — she’s thrifty, he’s on his 10th credit card.

“Steer clear of someone whose life you can run, who never makes demands counter to yours. It’s good to have a doormat in the home, but not if it’s your husband.

“Is he overly attached to his mother and her mythical apron strings? When he wants to make a decision, say, about where you should go on your honeymoon, he doesn’t consult you, he consults his mother. (I’ve known cases where the mother accompanies the couple on their honeymoon!)

“Does he have a sense of humor? That covers a multitude of sins. My mother was once asked how she managed to live harmoniously with three men — my father, brother and me. Her answer, delivered with awesome arrogance, was: ‘You simply operate on the assumption that no man matures after the age of 11.’ My father fell about laughing.

“A therapist friend insists that ‘more marriages are killed by silence than by violence.’ The strong, silent type can be charming but ultimately destructive. That world-class misogynist, Paul of Tarsus, got it right when he said, ‘In all your dealings with one another, speak the truth to one another in love that you may grow up.’

“Don’t marry a problem character thinking you will change him. He’s a heavy drinker, or some other kind of addict, but if he marries a good woman, he’ll settle down. People are the same after marriage as before, only more so.

“Take a good, unsentimental look at his family — you’ll learn a lot about him and his attitude towards women. Kay made a monstrous mistake marrying Michael Corleone! Is there a history of divorce in the family? An atmosphere of racism, sexism or prejudice in his home? Are his goals and deepest beliefs worthy and similar to yours? I remember counseling a pious Catholic woman that it might not be prudent to marry a pious Muslim, whose attitude about women was very different. Love trumped prudence; the annulment process was instigated by her six months later.

“Imagine a religious fundamentalist married to an agnostic. One would have to pray that the fundamentalist doesn’t open the Bible and hit the page in which Abraham is willing to obey God and slit his son’s throat.

“Finally: Does he possess those character traits that add up to a good human being — the willingness to forgive, praise, be courteous? Or is he inclined to be a fibber, to fits of rage, to be a control freak, to be envious of you, to be secretive?

“After I regale a group with this talk, the despairing cry goes up: ‘But you’ve eliminated everyone!’ Life is unfair.”


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