Parents have been snubbing my lesbian fiancee for two years
DEAR DEIDRE: THOUGH I have been with my fiancée for almost two years, my parents refuse to meet her.
I’m 29 and she is 31. My parents have known since my late teens that I am a lesbian.
They’ve met my past girlfriends but have avoided meeting my fiancée and her two children, who are aged six and eight. This has caused arguments.
I’m their only daughter but there’s been talk of them not attending our wedding.
I know my family love me and want a good relationship with me, but I’m struggling when my set-up is not acknowledged or accepted.
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DEIDRE SAYS: Maybe your parents hoped in the past having girlfriends was “a phase”. Now it’s serious. Perhaps, too, they worry as your fiancée comes with a ready-made family.
You need to be mature and assertive with your parents. Tell them you don’t want to fall out with them but you are an adult and free to follow your heart.
Say you want them to judge your fiancée as an individual. Invite them out for a meal on neutral territory – maybe without the children the first time, to keep things calmer.
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