Do your parents like your girlfriend or boyfriend? Would you break up if they didn't?

[aephi alum]

My father took an immediate and intense dislike to my husband. DH was a "heathen" (read: not Catholic), we were having premarital sex (horrors!), and we lived together for a while before we got married.

I married him anyway.

At our wedding, my father refused to do any of the usual father-of-the-bride stuff. He even threatened not to attend at all (I think my mom twisted his arm). Mom walked me down the aisle.

It's my life, not my father's. The decisions I make in life, including my choice of husband, are mine, not his.

[SWTXBelle]

As a parent, I try to find something to like in my girls' boyfriends. I love gypsyboot's beau! They are smart, level-headed girls, and I trust them. Even if I didn't particularly like a boy, I'd keep my mouth shut.

Unless the boy in question were verbally or physically abusing her. Then it's Katy bar the door! (After my grandmother's death I heard about her threatening the HORRIBLY abuse husband of my aunt with a shotgun when he tried to pursue her - go Grandmere!)