A Word About Dating Mexican Men and Their Mothers...

Mexican men will maintain you financially but in this exchange, you must cook, clean, feed them, do their laundry and wait on them hand and foot like a servant (basically take the place of their mother) and you'd better know how to iron and starch, and cook his favorite meal of his mama - if you decide to go this route, you can hire a muchacha to help clean your house, do laundry and iron for a very reasonable fee, about 150 pesos a day.

When you marry a Mexican you really must be willing to marry his mother also as they will be attached to the hip and when you are with them, you will be the odd one out.  Mexican men are very attached to their mothers and will usually chose them over you.  Mother's Day is the most celebrated holiday in Mexico, if you are a mother, you do not work on that day.  People spend more money on flowers, gifts and restaurants on Mother's Day than any other holiday of the year.  But I do have to give thanks to those mamas, because Mexican men are raised to be very educated, polite and respectful. 

Mexican men can be possessive and jealous, but are also the most passionate, loving, touchy and caring people you will ever date, they will always pull the chair out for you at restaurants, or open doors for you, they will never let you pay for anything, and they will always act as your protector, traditional men will always walk on the outside of the sidewalk so that they are shielding you from any danger from cars, thieves, etc.  When I went on my first date with a Mexican to a restaurant, he went around the table to pull out the chair for me and me being Canadian, thought, Oh, I guess he wants to sit on this side, so I went around and sat down on the other side of the table, he was standing there, stunned, and said, "I was pulling the chair out for you", I explained to him that in my culture, men were pretty redneck and didn't do those sorts of gestures for women.  After that date, I told my Canadian friends, "Once you date a Mexican, you will never go back".

Most Mexicans live on "family money" that has been passed down to them over the generations, so it's very common to hear "family business" or "trust fund baby".

Traditional Mexican men usually have other families apart from their wives, it's sort of an accepted cultural thing.  

If you tell a Mexican man you have a boyfriend, he will still want to date you somehow, but if you tell him that you are married, he will respect that.

Most Mexican men will date a woman at least 10 years younger, don't even think of dating anyone your age!  It is not uncommon to see old, bald men with young trophy wives.

Beware of dating any Mexican over the age of 40, they are most likely married and just looking for a "mamacita".

Mexican men find it a challenge to be reliable and on time.  When a Mexican says they will arrive in one hour, you need to add 1 hour to whatever they say.  This goes for parties too, I learned this on my first invitation to a birthday party, I arrived at 8:00pm on the dot, the host greeted me at the door in her bathrobe and asked me why I showed up so early, then told me that you don't ever show up at the time they tell you, usually it's about one hour after.