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Tips for Dealing With Families Who Don't Approve of Interracial Dating or Relationships
When your family doesn't approve of interracial dating or your interracial relationship can force you to make some difficult decisions. This article discusses how to deal with this situation and find a resolution.
If you're in an interracial relationship and your family doesn't approve, you're probably trying to figure out what to do. Depending on your family and their beliefs, these suggestions may be beneficial. You may want to adapt some of these ideas to fit your family and their personalities.
Talk to Them
This step may seem obvious, but it can be one of the most difficult steps when trying to solve this problem. When talking about the problem, you may want to try to stay as calm as possible. Although you may care a lot about your partner, you probably care about your family as well. Therefore, it's important to let them explain their point of view. Try to refrain from calling them ignorant or anything condescending like that. You may want to explore with them why they feel this way. Why they feel the way do is as important as how they feel when trying to understand the situation. Talking is a two-way street, so they need to allow you to share your feelings as well. They may be more receptive if you're respectful of their feelings.
Follow Your Heart
If talking to them doesn't help the situation, you have to follow what your heart says. You may have to choose somebody. When deciding which side to take, you should take some time to be by yourself, so you can really weigh the effects of your decision. You will probably want to try to do what you want most. It's going to be a tough decision if it comes down to this. As you try to decide, you want to make sure that you can definitely live with your decision with the least amount of regret as possible. Sometimes people put you in an awkward position, and you simply have to make a choice.
Since this may be one of the most difficult situations in your relationship, you may want to try getting support from other people who have been in this situation. You can try going to a counseling center to find if they have any support groups for interracial couples. If you prefer to be anonymous, you can try an online support group like the one at Loving You at www.lovingyou.com. Hopefully, you will be able to come up with a resolution that will work for you and your family as well as you and your partner.
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