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I think monogamy is hard, and while I respect those that truly believe in it, I still think it rings wrong.
On the other hand I think cheating is also wrong as it's a break of trust and will ultimately make you feel like a bad person. So if you're gonna have another romance or just a casual relationship you should be honest about it and be okay for the other person to also have the same privileges.
I think we would live way happier if people had more realistic expectations for attraction, sex and love instead of listening to holywood, cheating left and right, or stay sad in a relationship with kids, or be just another part of the whole marriage/divorce cycle.
On November 28 2013 11:11 GibberMD wrote: Signed up just to post here.
3 years ago, I attempted to amicably end a 9 year relationship.
So basically it all ended with the conversation of "I don't think that I'm in love with you anymore". This was only shortly before I was due to go away for work at the time so I said we will sort all the belongings and monies and things when I get back. So basically I just wanted to make things easy on both of us just pay the rent, food and bills with our joint money.
I went over for work to a mine site just outside of Mt. Isa in Queensland, Australia. On these sites you dont have to pay for anything, its all provided. We spoke a few times while I was away and everything appeared to be as good as it could be between us. Biggest misjudgment that I have ever made.
I was flying home through Sydney and decided to stay two nights to visit some long forgotten friends however when I got to the hotel it was all "sorry sir you CC has been declined". Immediately I log on to my bank to discover that I have indeed been shafted. $4k run up on the CC and no savings left whatsoever which was just creeping into the 5 figure territory. I couldn't believe it. So I just couch surfed a few nights in Sydney while seeing friends and explaining what had happened.
Anyhow I ended up catching my flight back to Perth and walked in the front door gobsmacked me. Nothing there... just and empty shell no furniture.... not even a knife and fork and a plate. Just nothing. I cried like a baby for about 2 hours before finally literally running to my mothers house.
Never heard from her again, don't know where she went or how she is getting on. I never pursued legal action because I just didn't think it was worth it.
This is heartbreaking. I'm just presuming its all true because it's so incredible (why register an account just to lie in such an odd manner).
Can't for the life of me think why you wouldn't prosecute for fraud ($4,000 fraud + Several Thousand for apartment furnishings). Maybe I'm just too unromantic when it comes to money. Couple hundred to a thousand I could kiss off to avoid the hassle. More and its just ridiculous.
While I understand your reaction Danglars, it seems like he's leaving some parts out. His later clarification that she had paid for some of his tuition and had bought most of the things in the house makes it more understandable. It's not like they were married and he had easy legal recourse. But I feel like if this situation were reversed, and a guy was living with a woman who told him that she didn't love him anymore, and this guy had spent 9 years of his life supporting this woman, who was just now starting to make money and be self-supporting, your advice to the guy would be to just take everything you can and run. Am I wrong?
Maybe the real heartbreak is that such a split needn't have happened. Monogamy just became too hard.
Regarding the YT clip: What the bloke says makes sense I guess. But I just hate the thought of another dick being inside the girl I love D:
The guy sounds retarded and nothing he says holds any legitimacy lol. We also treated women as our inferiors for most of our history as well, maybe we should go back to that because it's "easier" and more "natural".
Monogamy isn't too hard, people are just so focused on self-satisfaction that they don't care.
He didn't say that we should go back to how it was in the past, but that instead of elevating women's rights to be equal to men, we demoted men's rights to be what was expected of women at the time.
I don't know how I feel about the topic, I could go either way. I don't have enough personal experience to make any informed judgement call so everything I know is based on what I've heard from others. I know there are people who are in a committed relationship or married and have an open relationship that works great for them, whereas there are also people who are fully monogamous and happy with it, so it seems to be able to go either way.
On November 28 2013 11:11 GibberMD wrote: Signed up just to post here.
3 years ago, I attempted to amicably end a 9 year relationship.
So basically it all ended with the conversation of "I don't think that I'm in love with you anymore". This was only shortly before I was due to go away for work at the time so I said we will sort all the belongings and monies and things when I get back. So basically I just wanted to make things easy on both of us just pay the rent, food and bills with our joint money.
I went over for work to a mine site just outside of Mt. Isa in Queensland, Australia. On these sites you dont have to pay for anything, its all provided. We spoke a few times while I was away and everything appeared to be as good as it could be between us. Biggest misjudgment that I have ever made.
I was flying home through Sydney and decided to stay two nights to visit some long forgotten friends however when I got to the hotel it was all "sorry sir you CC has been declined". Immediately I log on to my bank to discover that I have indeed been shafted. $4k run up on the CC and no savings left whatsoever which was just creeping into the 5 figure territory. I couldn't believe it. So I just couch surfed a few nights in Sydney while seeing friends and explaining what had happened.
Anyhow I ended up catching my flight back to Perth and walked in the front door gobsmacked me. Nothing there... just and empty shell no furniture.... not even a knife and fork and a plate. Just nothing. I cried like a baby for about 2 hours before finally literally running to my mothers house.
Never heard from her again, don't know where she went or how she is getting on. I never pursued legal action because I just didn't think it was worth it.
This is heartbreaking. I'm just presuming its all true because it's so incredible (why register an account just to lie in such an odd manner).
Can't for the life of me think why you wouldn't prosecute for fraud ($4,000 fraud + Several Thousand for apartment furnishings). Maybe I'm just too unromantic when it comes to money. Couple hundred to a thousand I could kiss off to avoid the hassle. More and its just ridiculous.
While I understand your reaction Danglars, it seems like he's leaving some parts out. His later clarification that she had paid for some of his tuition and had bought most of the things in the house makes it more understandable. It's not like they were married and he had easy legal recourse. But I feel like if this situation were reversed, and a guy was living with a woman who told him that she didn't love him anymore, and this guy had spent 9 years of his life supporting this woman, who was just now starting to make money and be self-supporting, your advice to the guy would be to just take everything you can and run. Am I wrong?
Maybe the real heartbreak is that such a split needn't have happened. Monogamy just became too hard.
On November 28 2013 11:11 GibberMD wrote: Signed up just to post here.
3 years ago, I attempted to amicably end a 9 year relationship.
So basically it all ended with the conversation of "I don't think that I'm in love with you anymore". This was only shortly before I was due to go away for work at the time so I said we will sort all the belongings and monies and things when I get back. So basically I just wanted to make things easy on both of us just pay the rent, food and bills with our joint money.
I went over for work to a mine site just outside of Mt. Isa in Queensland, Australia. On these sites you dont have to pay for anything, its all provided. We spoke a few times while I was away and everything appeared to be as good as it could be between us. Biggest misjudgment that I have ever made.
I was flying home through Sydney and decided to stay two nights to visit some long forgotten friends however when I got to the hotel it was all "sorry sir you CC has been declined". Immediately I log on to my bank to discover that I have indeed been shafted. $4k run up on the CC and no savings left whatsoever which was just creeping into the 5 figure territory. I couldn't believe it. So I just couch surfed a few nights in Sydney while seeing friends and explaining what had happened.
Anyhow I ended up catching my flight back to Perth and walked in the front door gobsmacked me. Nothing there... just and empty shell no furniture.... not even a knife and fork and a plate. Just nothing. I cried like a baby for about 2 hours before finally literally running to my mothers house.
Never heard from her again, don't know where she went or how she is getting on. I never pursued legal action because I just didn't think it was worth it.
This is heartbreaking. I'm just presuming its all true because it's so incredible (why register an account just to lie in such an odd manner).
Can't for the life of me think why you wouldn't prosecute for fraud ($4,000 fraud + Several Thousand for apartment furnishings). Maybe I'm just too unromantic when it comes to money. Couple hundred to a thousand I could kiss off to avoid the hassle. More and its just ridiculous.
While I understand your reaction Danglars, it seems like he's leaving some parts out. His later clarification that she had paid for some of his tuition and had bought most of the things in the house makes it more understandable. It's not like they were married and he had easy legal recourse. But I feel like if this situation were reversed, and a guy was living with a woman who told him that she didn't love him anymore, and this guy had spent 9 years of his life supporting this woman, who was just now starting to make money and be self-supporting, your advice to the guy would be to just take everything you can and run. Am I wrong?
Maybe the real heartbreak is that such a split needn't have happened. Monogamy just became too hard.
Regarding the YT clip: What the bloke says makes sense I guess. But I just hate the thought of another dick being inside the girl I love D:
I'm in favor of relationships in which everyone can have sex with as many women as they want to.
What about being in a relationship in which everyone can have sex with as many men as they want to? The second I found out my ex I was still sleeping with was also sleeping with 3 other guys, sometimes multiple in the same day, I dropped that shit instantly.
I need some advice, or to be precise, just your opinion, on a very specific situation.
Couple of weeks ago i fell in love with a new girl. Generally we both like each other quite alot, though i doubt that she feels the same way as i do, which is ok by me. It has been going pretty well thus far (we kiss alot and the sexual tension is quite strong), however, when we are together, on some rare occurances, she gets really thrown off by feelings that this is wrong(doesnt specify, i dont believe she could actually pinpoint it to something specific). Seeing that i have very little experience in that department, how should i proceed? And i say again, i want your opinion I´ll make up my own in the end anyway, I just need alternative perspectives.
On November 29 2013 10:56 julius33 wrote: Hi liquidians,
I need some advice, or to be precise, just your opinion, on a very specific situation.
Couple of weeks ago i fell in love with a new girl. Generally we both like each other quite alot, though i doubt that she feels the same way as i do, which is ok by me. It has been going pretty well thus far (we kiss alot and the sexual tension is quite strong), however, when we are together, on some rare occurances, she gets really thrown off by feelings that this is wrong(doesnt specify, i dont believe she could actually pinpoint it to something specific). Seeing that i have very little experience in that department, how should i proceed? And i say again, i want your opinion I´ll make up my own in the end anyway, I just need alternative perspectives.
Step 1: Go through this checklist:
-Have you slept together ? -Do you know most of what there is to know about her ? -Have you already had a fight and worked it out ? -Are you with her for at least 6 months ?
If one of these is unchecked, really ask yourself if you really love her or you're just in a need for a relationship due to a lack of other opportunities. I'd probably say the latest. However, it doesn't mean it's wrong, just that you probably should tone down your expectations and just acknowledge that wherever this is going you want to pursue it but shouldn't feel too bad if it goes nowhere.
Step 2: If you're still there it would require a bit more details as to what is really going wrong and what kind of stuff she is expressing. Also you should indicate your age, hers and whether or not she is a virgin. Either way the most basic advice we can give you is just to keep going forward using the tension you speak about BUT everytime she pushes back just stop, let it die as if its just normal, and go back at it a later time when the opportunity raises again. You could also try to make some reassurance if you think it might be her problem. Tell her whatever happens you will respect it if she says no and will never boast about it in your entourage. These two things have always been the number 2 stuff I've heard girl being worried about when it comes to sex (after pregnancy and STD obviously but these are easily warded off).
Anyone have experience meeting a Korean girlfriend's parents as a westerner? Is there anything I should know about for this kind of situation? Are there sometimes racist attitudes among older generation Koreans in their 50s-60s? First time meeting a girl's parents and it seems like I'm in the hardest possible situation to win their approval.
It's gonna be extra hard in my case because she's 33 and I'm 24. I'm also black/hispanic mixed. I declined her invitation to Thanksgiving this year. She seemed disappointed but understood my apprehension since 3 of her siblings+their spouses (who are all Korean) were going to be there in addition to parents. It's just a lot of pressure to meet all of them in one day.
She's the eldest (and hottest) of her siblings and the only one who's not married, so I'm praying that they're just happy their daughter snagged a man and are willing to overlook the age difference+ethnicity.
annnddd I have extra anxiety because she's not introduced any of her previous BFs to the folks. And they were all Asian.
So I'm sort of involved with three girls right now. Two who are local and one who lives 3 hours away. Of course my idiot brain is falling for the one that lives three hours away. FML
On November 29 2013 12:48 Drowsy wrote: Anyone have experience meeting a Korean girlfriend's parents as a westerner? Is there anything I should know about for this kind of situation? Are there sometimes racist attitudes among older generation Koreans in their 50s-60s? First time meeting a girl's parents and it seems like I'm in the hardest possible situation to win their approval.
It's gonna be extra hard in my case because she's 33 and I'm 24. I'm also black/hispanic mixed. I declined her invitation to Thanksgiving this year. She seemed disappointed but understood my apprehension since 3 of her siblings+their spouses (who are all Korean) were going to be there in addition to parents. It's just a lot of pressure to meet all of them in one day.
She's the eldest (and hottest) of her siblings and the only one who's not married, so I'm praying that they're just happy their daughter snagged a man and are willing to overlook the age difference+ethnicity.
annnddd I have extra anxiety because she's not introduced any of her previous BFs to the folks. And they were all Asian.
really depends on the family, I have met asian parents that were very accepting of crossing races and others that you could tell silently voiced their disapproval. If they don't like you because of your skin that is never going to change and you shouldn't waste effort trying to win them over. In the end all that matters is that you two are happy together and that should be enough for them (although obviously you have to be ready to put up with weird family situations which isn't that bad really)
On November 28 2013 11:11 GibberMD wrote: Signed up just to post here.
3 years ago, I attempted to amicably end a 9 year relationship.
So basically it all ended with the conversation of "I don't think that I'm in love with you anymore". This was only shortly before I was due to go away for work at the time so I said we will sort all the belongings and monies and things when I get back. So basically I just wanted to make things easy on both of us just pay the rent, food and bills with our joint money.
I went over for work to a mine site just outside of Mt. Isa in Queensland, Australia. On these sites you dont have to pay for anything, its all provided. We spoke a few times while I was away and everything appeared to be as good as it could be between us. Biggest misjudgment that I have ever made.
I was flying home through Sydney and decided to stay two nights to visit some long forgotten friends however when I got to the hotel it was all "sorry sir you CC has been declined". Immediately I log on to my bank to discover that I have indeed been shafted. $4k run up on the CC and no savings left whatsoever which was just creeping into the 5 figure territory. I couldn't believe it. So I just couch surfed a few nights in Sydney while seeing friends and explaining what had happened.
Anyhow I ended up catching my flight back to Perth and walked in the front door gobsmacked me. Nothing there... just and empty shell no furniture.... not even a knife and fork and a plate. Just nothing. I cried like a baby for about 2 hours before finally literally running to my mothers house.
Never heard from her again, don't know where she went or how she is getting on. I never pursued legal action because I just didn't think it was worth it.
This is heartbreaking. I'm just presuming its all true because it's so incredible (why register an account just to lie in such an odd manner).
Can't for the life of me think why you wouldn't prosecute for fraud ($4,000 fraud + Several Thousand for apartment furnishings). Maybe I'm just too unromantic when it comes to money. Couple hundred to a thousand I could kiss off to avoid the hassle. More and its just ridiculous.
While I understand your reaction Danglars, it seems like he's leaving some parts out. His later clarification that she had paid for some of his tuition and had bought most of the things in the house makes it more understandable. It's not like they were married and he had easy legal recourse. But I feel like if this situation were reversed, and a guy was living with a woman who told him that she didn't love him anymore, and this guy had spent 9 years of his life supporting this woman, who was just now starting to make money and be self-supporting, your advice to the guy would be to just take everything you can and run. Am I wrong?
Maybe the real heartbreak is that such a split needn't have happened. Monogamy just became too hard.
The guy in this video is absolutely clueless. Not only is his knowledge of history and past cultures woefully inadequate (his take on men being allowed to just have other women free of consequence is factually incorrect), but he's also completely wrong on his other points. "Monogamy is unnatural/we didn't evolve with monogamy/etc" is patently false and he has no basis for it. Monogamy has huge evolutionary merit and has also been seen in cultures across the world throughout history. It didn't just randomly pop up.
I absolutely do not believe monogamy is for everyone. Many people are really bad at it. The part that bugs me is when those people that suck at monogamy try to invalidate the practice by saying that it's bad, futile, or otherwise unnatural. That argument is pretty much always BS, and all it ends up being is that person trying to make themselves feel better for being terrible at monogamous relationships.
If you suck at/don't like monogamous relationships, don't do it. You should be free to be different, and more power to you if you can find a partner that's ok with it (you'd probably have a pretty sweet life if you did). But don't be such a hipster and try to deride the practice as a whole. It just makes you look ridiculous.
On November 28 2013 11:11 GibberMD wrote: Signed up just to post here.
3 years ago, I attempted to amicably end a 9 year relationship.
So basically it all ended with the conversation of "I don't think that I'm in love with you anymore". This was only shortly before I was due to go away for work at the time so I said we will sort all the belongings and monies and things when I get back. So basically I just wanted to make things easy on both of us just pay the rent, food and bills with our joint money.
I went over for work to a mine site just outside of Mt. Isa in Queensland, Australia. On these sites you dont have to pay for anything, its all provided. We spoke a few times while I was away and everything appeared to be as good as it could be between us. Biggest misjudgment that I have ever made.
I was flying home through Sydney and decided to stay two nights to visit some long forgotten friends however when I got to the hotel it was all "sorry sir you CC has been declined". Immediately I log on to my bank to discover that I have indeed been shafted. $4k run up on the CC and no savings left whatsoever which was just creeping into the 5 figure territory. I couldn't believe it. So I just couch surfed a few nights in Sydney while seeing friends and explaining what had happened.
Anyhow I ended up catching my flight back to Perth and walked in the front door gobsmacked me. Nothing there... just and empty shell no furniture.... not even a knife and fork and a plate. Just nothing. I cried like a baby for about 2 hours before finally literally running to my mothers house.
Never heard from her again, don't know where she went or how she is getting on. I never pursued legal action because I just didn't think it was worth it.
This is heartbreaking. I'm just presuming its all true because it's so incredible (why register an account just to lie in such an odd manner).
Can't for the life of me think why you wouldn't prosecute for fraud ($4,000 fraud + Several Thousand for apartment furnishings). Maybe I'm just too unromantic when it comes to money. Couple hundred to a thousand I could kiss off to avoid the hassle. More and its just ridiculous.
While I understand your reaction Danglars, it seems like he's leaving some parts out. His later clarification that she had paid for some of his tuition and had bought most of the things in the house makes it more understandable. It's not like they were married and he had easy legal recourse. But I feel like if this situation were reversed, and a guy was living with a woman who told him that she didn't love him anymore, and this guy had spent 9 years of his life supporting this woman, who was just now starting to make money and be self-supporting, your advice to the guy would be to just take everything you can and run. Am I wrong?
Maybe the real heartbreak is that such a split needn't have happened. Monogamy just became too hard.
The guy in this video is absolutely clueless. Not only is his knowledge of history and past cultures woefully inadequate (his take on men being allowed to just have other women free of consequence is factually incorrect), but he's also completely wrong on his other points. "Monogamy is unnatural/we didn't evolve with monogamy/etc" is patently false and he has no basis for it. Monogamy has huge evolutionary merit and has also been seen in cultures across the world throughout history. It didn't just randomly pop up.
I absolutely do not believe monogamy is for everyone. Many people are really bad at it. The part that bugs me is when those people that suck at monogamy try to invalidate the practice by saying that it's bad, futile, or otherwise unnatural. That argument is pretty much always BS, and all it ends up being is that person trying to make themselves feel better for being terrible at monogamous relationships.
If you suck at/don't like monogamous relationships, don't do it. You should be free to be different, and more power to you if you can find a partner that's ok with it (you'd probably have a pretty sweet life if you did). But don't be such a hipster and try to deride the practice as a whole. It just makes you look ridiculous.
I don't think you are factually right about much here. You can like monogamy if you want, no one is stopping you.
Am i supposed to take a gay activist that uses a naturalist argument seriously though ? I kinda agree with what he says overall, but I think he could say it in a much more intelligent way, but alas not as controversial too...
On November 29 2013 12:48 Drowsy wrote: Anyone have experience meeting a Korean girlfriend's parents as a westerner? Is there anything I should know about for this kind of situation? Are there sometimes racist attitudes among older generation Koreans in their 50s-60s? First time meeting a girl's parents and it seems like I'm in the hardest possible situation to win their approval.
It's gonna be extra hard in my case because she's 33 and I'm 24. I'm also black/hispanic mixed. I declined her invitation to Thanksgiving this year. She seemed disappointed but understood my apprehension since 3 of her siblings+their spouses (who are all Korean) were going to be there in addition to parents. It's just a lot of pressure to meet all of them in one day.
She's the eldest (and hottest) of her siblings and the only one who's not married, so I'm praying that they're just happy their daughter snagged a man and are willing to overlook the age difference+ethnicity.
annnddd I have extra anxiety because she's not introduced any of her previous BFs to the folks. And they were all Asian.
Might as well kill the abscess and just do meet her family. Its not like you can change your color over time (or your age) so if they dont respect you now because of it they probably never will. If you feel pressured I can understand you missing meeting everyone at once. But don't decline the next invitation. It's useless.
What you can do is just ask her what you can do to make it all go smoother.
In the end if it fails, well it sucks but you wouldn't be the first guy to be disliked by his step family. And then it doesn't mean she would instantly break up or someething especially at 33 (you may even consider that if a girl breaks up with you because of her parents, it's probably a good thing you avoided her).
On November 28 2013 05:15 LongShot27 wrote: "So do you still wanna go out sometime?". she says "I duno" or something like that. Tell her that you'd like to take her out, tell her it doesn't have to be anything overly serious but that ya like her and wanna get to know her better. If she says no to that then she isn't worth it
You are probably right , though i would still think she is worth it . I am gonna ask her out maybe tomorrow or today on facebook , and negotiate something easy going cafe or a some kind of a club . But i don't think i should tell her on the phone that i still like her , why not on the date in person ? I don't think she is not the type of girl that would be making stuff up so we can avoid going out , she really is quite busy .
Trust me on this one I felt the dame way as you did a few days ago. Just go up, say it and see what happens. If she says something like "well maybe in so many days" hold her to it. I got the "im going through alot of stuff right now" response so I said "alright we'll talk about it next week". Set a time for it. If you just keep letting it go by that's all that's ever gonna happen.
And what happened ? Did you two go out together or are you still on the roller coaster ?
On November 28 2013 05:15 LongShot27 wrote: "So do you still wanna go out sometime?". she says "I duno" or something like that. Tell her that you'd like to take her out, tell her it doesn't have to be anything overly serious but that ya like her and wanna get to know her better. If she says no to that then she isn't worth it
You are probably right , though i would still think she is worth it . I am gonna ask her out maybe tomorrow or today on facebook , and negotiate something easy going cafe or a some kind of a club . But i don't think i should tell her on the phone that i still like her , why not on the date in person ? I don't think she is not the type of girl that would be making stuff up so we can avoid going out , she really is quite busy .
Trust me on this one I felt the dame way as you did a few days ago. Just go up, say it and see what happens. If she says something like "well maybe in so many days" hold her to it. I got the "im going through alot of stuff right now" response so I said "alright we'll talk about it next week". Set a time for it. If you just keep letting it go by that's all that's ever gonna happen.
And what happened ? Did you two go out together or are you still on the roller coaster ?
On November 29 2013 12:48 Drowsy wrote: Anyone have experience meeting a Korean girlfriend's parents as a westerner? Is there anything I should know about for this kind of situation? Are there sometimes racist attitudes among older generation Koreans in their 50s-60s? First time meeting a girl's parents and it seems like I'm in the hardest possible situation to win their approval.
It's gonna be extra hard in my case because she's 33 and I'm 24. I'm also black/hispanic mixed. I declined her invitation to Thanksgiving this year. She seemed disappointed but understood my apprehension since 3 of her siblings+their spouses (who are all Korean) were going to be there in addition to parents. It's just a lot of pressure to meet all of them in one day.
She's the eldest (and hottest) of her siblings and the only one who's not married, so I'm praying that they're just happy their daughter snagged a man and are willing to overlook the age difference+ethnicity.
annnddd I have extra anxiety because she's not introduced any of her previous BFs to the folks. And they were all Asian.
If you have been seriously dating for 6 months to a year or longer, thanksgiving is a good idea. The only reason I'd ever decline is a heavy travel cost or your family all getting together for something big. It's a sign she wants to show you off (vs warning you from coming). If you're very interested in her, you can come to terms with how the inlaws behave even earlier.
I don't know what apprehension there is if you already know her siblings somewhat (know her to be the hottest of them). Just presume her siblings will be happy she's found someone, and manage with whatever cross-cultural or awkward could happen with the parents first meeting you. Christmas?
On November 29 2013 12:48 Drowsy wrote: Anyone have experience meeting a Korean girlfriend's parents as a westerner? Is there anything I should know about for this kind of situation? Are there sometimes racist attitudes among older generation Koreans in their 50s-60s? First time meeting a girl's parents and it seems like I'm in the hardest possible situation to win their approval.
It's gonna be extra hard in my case because she's 33 and I'm 24. I'm also black/hispanic mixed. I declined her invitation to Thanksgiving this year. She seemed disappointed but understood my apprehension since 3 of her siblings+their spouses (who are all Korean) were going to be there in addition to parents. It's just a lot of pressure to meet all of them in one day.
She's the eldest (and hottest) of her siblings and the only one who's not married, so I'm praying that they're just happy their daughter snagged a man and are willing to overlook the age difference+ethnicity.
annnddd I have extra anxiety because she's not introduced any of her previous BFs to the folks. And they were all Asian.
Good luck. I don't really have any advice, other than if her parents decide they don't like you based on your ethnicity and age, then it's unlikely you'll change their mind even if you act like the most upstanding, culturally sensitive young man.
One of my brothers' friends (Chinese) has been dating this white girl for years now, and he wants to marry her... his parents were fine with the relationship when they were just dating, but as soon as he said anything about marriage, they're suddenly turned all hostile and may be trying to sabotage the relationship, just (1) because she's not Chinese, and (2) because she's not a stay-at-home woman (in med school). Never thought I'd see the day that modernish Chinese parents wouldn't be fine with another doctor in the house.
EPT
I´ll make up my own in the end anyway, I just need alternative perspectives.
