Courtship period, daddy chancletero, and the slutty Einstein
Son: "Dad, did you and mom have courtship period?" Albert Einstein: "I have it daily."
Use this period wisely
The courtship period is the time before marriage when you spend time with your partner for a know-it-all sesh.
The goal is to understand the other person's values, needs, desires, habits, thinking patterns, etc. before you officially tie the bond.
This can either lead to a marriage or a cut-off.
But it is not a bad practice.
You get a sense of predictability and certainty so the chance of divorce reduces down the line.
Of course, we can't guarantee a person will be fully honest or show his mental symptoms during the courtship period itself. We never 100% know.
So there's that. And than there's the chancletero concept.
Girls, if you don't have any brother, your father is a chancletero
There's a Caribbean-Spanish slang for men who only produce daughters: the Chancletero.
It comes from the Spanish word chancleta meaning slippers.
Why the heaven is a man who only has daughters thought to be a man in slippers? We don't know. Nobody knows. It's a crazy linkage.
"Is it because he is not man enough to wear slippers? Or is it because he must tread softly? Or is it because your daughters will always fetch your slippers for you?" (Mark Oppenheimer)
Yeah, Einstein slept with many woman
I don't want this fact to reduce your respect for Albert Einstein but he slept with many women even after marriage.
Despite this his wife Mileva loved him.
But one day he told her to leave him.
And when she begged him to stay, he said to her:
“OK, only if you do these three things.
One. Do my laundry and serve me three meals a day in my room. Two. Leave my room at once when I ask you. And three, don’t ask me for lovemaking.”
Mileva agreed. And with this, he enjoyed physics and pleasures.
One time former Soviet leader Stalin sent a Soviet spy to dig into his secrets ...but he convinced her to sleep too.
"Nobody knew the exact number of Einstein’s girlfriends. Among them, there had been socialites, widows, even his former students." (Derek Rake)
Two takeaways are:
Einstein's wife Mileva wasn’t ready to divorce him because of a great courtship period before their marriage. Source.
Einstein wasn’t a chancletero. He had two sons and a daughter who sadly left the world after a year of birth. Source.
A fun extra read would be:
Einstein: His Life and Universe. This book will help you learn more about his personal life. I didn’t read it yet but the link is affiliate and when you buy, it won’t cost you extra but I might be able to buy the book in some days.
So are those still not divorced but have affairs, couples not divorced because of the time they spent before marriage was strong? And Einstein having this messy personal life is kinda shocking but again this explains his famous portrait, the sticking out tongue one. Before I thought that was just some crazy scientist perks, IG not. Or maybe the way his private life is because he's a crazy scientist? I wonder!!