I wanted to say my mom’s mother but I drew a blank at the time :)
My pop’s mom probably would have said the same thing. :)
Not until the late 30s or later in this country did female Italian immigrants or even daughters of immigrants have a lot of say in who they were going to marry.
It wasn’t “arranged” but it was “understood”
Agreed. There was an understanding that certain acts implied commitment. The “acts” may have varied by community, but everybody in the neighborhood knew when a couple had passed from flirtation to serious commitment. And to leave them alone to figure how to work it out, which they usually did for 50+ year marriages and several kids.