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Old Jun 22, 2020, 12:16 PM
Mbluish Mbluish is offline
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This is regarding racism and the current administration. My parents lean one way and my husband, a person of color, leans the other. After 25 years of marriage, my husband has had it. My parents love and adore my husband but have always poked fun at him, teased him, questioned his intelligence (He is a PhD and the smartest person I know). My parents are uneducated and ignorant about certain subjects. While all of these years I have only seen this as them being challenging, I have always known they idolize my husband but they could never say it. My mom has made unthinking comments about his religion, culture, and ethnic background. The last time we went to my parent’s house together (They live in the same town), we stopped by at the last minute to bring them food. We have a zero politics rule that my parents can never abide by. We left with my parents chasing us out the door my mom chanting the name of a racist, political figure and by dad calling us a colorful name. They thought they were being funny but it was ugly to us. Never once in all of these years had my husband said my parents are racists but now he says he has put up with their racism all of these years and he never wants to see them again. He ran into them once and my mom apologized to him for anything she did that hurt him. He didn’t accept that. My parents are heartbroken. I am stuck but I am on my husband’s side. My mom asked if there is anything they can do to let them know. I don’t know. He went through a very deep depression last year and is still in therapy. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
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