Interracial Relationships Support Group
This community is dedicated to the challenges presented when two people of different religious backgrounds form a relationship. Mingling different religions has both positive and potentially challenging aspects, including the religious preferences of children, religious holidays and traditions, schools and religious education and potentially different moral or ethical...
so im currently living with my parents and as of two weeks ago add my grandmother; and my mom and my grandmother keep making comments about how i fix my daughters hair. my daughter is mixed and has curly hair but its not coarse its more like my hair. anywayz because her hair is long and very curly i usually plait it because it keeps it tangle free and i think it looks adorabe. but evertime i do it they make comments like "oh that sure is alot of braids" and "i dont think you should keep doing it because she doesnt have black people hair and i think your damaging it". how the hell is braiding hair damaging it? i dont pull the rubberbands out which is the only thing that i think would damage it, i carefully cut them out as to not strip her hair. anyway i think its because they dont want her to look "black". do you think im trippin? or am i on point?
An example from my life: I live with my mum and stepdad, and I don't get along with him. Once my mum told me to be nice to him coz she'll be always nice to my future husband even if she doesnt like him. And here I am now dating a black guy and getting all the crap from my family (fair enough, not a husband, but a serious bf). So sometimes when I get really pissed off with my stepdad I start making comments about things he does or things related to him. and it could be something trivial, but I just express my anger and pain in that form.
So the point I'm trying to make is that considering ur parents' attitude towards ur bf, they might just critisise things that are related to him.
On the other hand, they might just genuinly express their opinion about plaiting ur daughter's hair since they don't know much about it
It's a very well known fact that pulling the hair tight will cause it to thin prematurely if you do it up that way a lot.
Maybe they were talking about this.