House Rule: No Boys.
She does know about the house rule, right? No boys?
I live with a friend of mine and her sister. Their parents own the house and they are from Rio Rico. There is a house rule that I recently learned about and it goes a little something like this: No boys allowed.
First, let’s take a journey through a scenario where that rule is deeply enforced and followed. Now, one of the girls in the house, the older sister of 23 years old–we’ll call her *Laura–she has a boyfriend, and a steady one at that. Can these parents truly assume that she is not having him over all the time? Do they expect her to just meet the guy and get married? What is so wrong with having a boy over to your house? At first, I truly did not understand. But once I started to think about it, I started thinking about it more rationally.
I came across this website called When Do Latino Women Start Their Sex Life, an article I found on Softpedia.com. It talked a lot about how the influence of family expectations, and how they play an “important role” in a Latino woman’s life as to when she becomes sexually active. I think it is important to note because *Laura worries so much about her family liking her boyfriend, and he’s not even allowed in the house! Now, when I’m dating someone I could truly careless what my parents have to say about him if they don’t like him. My opinion is that it is none of their business who I date. But in a Latino family, and most notably in my roommates, a lot of what her family does and says judges how she views and lives her life.
I came across another website thats talks about dating in the hispanic culture. There is a quote from this website that I really liked referring to dating: “The expectations in Hispanic culture appear outdated in the modern dating world.” I think this is true in many respects, and my roommates parents are just one concrete example.
This was just a small observation of my daily life and I thought I’d share 
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