I mentioned to some family members yesterday how I was talking to someone from a Catholic dating site and wanted to meet them in person, then went on to describe him, including him being African (moved here 10 years ago). My aunt made the comment "Don't you want to find a nice white boy? It would make things so much easier." My family is Euro/Caucasian, my late husband was Pacific Islander and this new man is African. I really took offense to what she said, both for Joe and this guy, but should I? Especially in the South, but really it's everywhere, interracial relationships attract more attention, sometimes negative. To me, it doesn't matter. I am attracted to certain people (more often non-Caucasian) and I don't care about other people's problems with it. I just didn't know how to respond to what she said. Did she think I shouldn't have been with my husband? She loved him too.
This added on to my sister saying to me, "Are you just afraid to be alone!" makes me not want to tell my family anything anymore. And I'm very close to them.
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