Will you still date a person your family disapproves of?

United States
January 17, 2007 4:49pm CST
If you are with a person that you love and your family is not totally agreeing with your relationship, would you still go on with that relationship if it goes to the extent of breaking your good relationship with your family?
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12 responses
• India
21 Jan 07
If I am really in love with someone I would certainly go on with the relation. Although as I love my family members too I won't even break my relaions with them. Rather I would try to know the reason of their disapproval and try to sort it out with my love. I would try to convince them about the qualities of my love and why i fell i love with her. And if they realy love me they would certainly agree after knowing that my life is nothing without my love.
• India
21 Jan 07
It dpends on how deep u are in a relationship with that person .If u feel if it is just a crush or something than I think u shld listen to ur family U can also look at it from a diiferent angle may be ur parents think that the boy/girl is not of a good character or something and are trying to protect u.The ball is in ur court u get to choose.BEST OF LUCK!!
@pusiket (1756)
• Philippines
21 Jan 07
It depends on how i feel for that person. If I love that person so much, no one in this earth can ever stop me in dating him. But if not, then I'll stop.
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
21 Jan 07
i think i will think twice if i will want to date him again if my family dislike him.
@shywolf (4514)
• United States
21 Jan 07
If I am truly in love with that person, I don't see how I could let anything stand between our love. I would hate to hurt my family, but I would hope that they would be happy for me no matter what. After all, the one thing that I have longed for the most in life is true love. If they are not happy for me when I've found it, that would really break my heart.
• India
21 Jan 07
It all depends on ur specific situation. I personnaly always have put my family over everything else. I our family(n i dont mean only first relations) we always back our family people come what may........
@sunita64 (6469)
• India
17 Jan 07
No for me my family is far too important and if they are not accepting any of my relationship then it must have some reasons.I cannot break away from my family for anyone.
• Italy
20 Jan 07
yes i would still dating that person, althought my family would prohibit it ! I believe that everybody has the right of a private sentimental life. If your family doesn't understand your feelings towards that person it is their fault !
@lauriefnp (5111)
• United States
17 Jan 07
I would not deliberately choose someone who I know my family would not like, but if I were involved with someone and we were in love, then I would continue the relationship regardless of what family or friends thought. They have a right to their opinions, and I would listen and consider them, but the final decision would be mine. I am confident that my family would never put me in a position where I had to choose between my boyfriend and them. They would do their best to try to accept him and to see what I saw in him.
• India
17 Jan 07
Well im very sure im gonna face this problem soon so i have already though about it i aint ready to give my on my relationship with my girlfriend and im very sure my parents are gonna be against our relationship so im gonna try my best to get my parents to like her a lot to avoid any problems arising... If they still do not agree then i aint sure what im gonna do....
• United States
21 Jan 07
Yes I have been with someone my family has hated. Yes it broke up our closeness within the family. Then I found out after years of messing up, they were right and I shouldn't have ever been with that person.
• United States
20 Jan 07
I've been through this before with my parents, who disagreed with me on dating a particular girl. I'm grown enough to make my own decisions based on my own feelings and I dont have to listen to anyone but myself, but at the same time my parents do have good instincts and listening to them usually is the best choice to make.