I have been going out with my boyfriend for almost two years without telling my parents. I know they suspected that we were seeing each other but they never brought it up. The thing is that I am Arabic and he is English and I did not know whether they would approve or not. I assumed because of this don't ask don't tell policy on my relationship that they were hoping it would die out.
Well today at lunch my mother just out right asked me if we were going out and I said yes. She asked if it was serious and again I said yes. She then asked me if he would convert (my parents are Muslim) and I said he would. She seemed thrilled! She just came back from the States and had gone to see her father's grave for the first time, he died of a heart attack suddenly ten years ago, and she said that it made her realize that life was too short. That the fact that my boyfriend was willing to convert was the ultimate sacrifice which to her proved that he loved me.
So it looks like by this summer (when he graduates college) we will be engaged!
Well today at lunch my mother just out right asked me if we were going out and I said yes. She asked if it was serious and again I said yes. She then asked me if he would convert (my parents are Muslim) and I said he would. She seemed thrilled! She just came back from the States and had gone to see her father's grave for the first time, he died of a heart attack suddenly ten years ago, and she said that it made her realize that life was too short. That the fact that my boyfriend was willing to convert was the ultimate sacrifice which to her proved that he loved me.
So it looks like by this summer (when he graduates college) we will be engaged!
