My boyfriend, Marc, moved here over a year ago and since he's moved here he hasn't bothered with his family. It combines of a lot of reasons why he isn't bothering with them. A lot of it started before we even met. They've never treated him good and they've made it pretty known that even though they have never met me -- and seem to have no intention of ever meeting me -- that they do not like me. His grandmother one time pretty much told him she was worried about him coming here to see me because he could get hurt staying with a white family. He's never gotten hurt while staying here or anything. He also brought all his video games over here because his younger brother kept taking them without asking and would ruin them. His grandmother said not to bring them here because I would steal them or break them. First of all, I always take care of my own things so why wouldn't I take care of his? And second, how can I steal them if they are already here?
His family really tried to control him. They wouldn't want him talking to me, his grandmother would take the phone from him and hang up on me. When he would have already had his train ticket paid for they would say they don't know if they had time to take him to the train station and there is really so much more that happened. So you can imagine when he decided to move here they weren't happy.
The day he was moving in here his mom wanted to talk to my parents. At that time we had been together for over two years and all of the sudden she wanted to talk to my parents. He's not dating my parents, he's dating me and she hasn't even tried to get to know me at all. We didn't let her to talk with my parents because we both knew what would have happened. She would have started a fight and we honestly didn't need that. His grandmother told him he needed to call them every week. Needless to say, when he didn't call every week they called my cell phone non-stop. And somehow his mom got the house number. We don't know how, Marc always called my cell phone for us to talk and he never gave his family the number so I have no idea how they even got it. Marc stopped calling because it was the same everytime; his grandmother would ask if he's mad at her, saying she worries about him etc then the phone would be handed to his mother and right off she would fight with him, saying he was giving her attitude and after she fought with him then the phone would be handed to his brother who would then try to make him feel bad about moving. He got tired of it and stopped calling. They called like crazy, but stopped calling my cell and started calling the house. For awhile they haven't called, but they do stop for awhile then start again.
My mom said it would be a good idea to at least send his grandmother a letter to let her know that he is fine and why he won't call. He explained why he wouldn't call and said it was because his mom fought with him everytime. He said that he would call the house only if his mom weren't there and if he only talked to his grandmother ( The reason he will only talk to his grandmother is because she's the one being nice right now, but if he still lived at home it would be a totally different story). He also told her that his mom is not to call the house phone anymore. The letter was sent on Thursday of last week and they must of gotten it on Saturday because his mom called the house phone on Sunday and left a message for him to call her back.
He told her to please not call the house phone. And she did it anyway. Before he even sent this letter she has also been giving out the house phone number to other people Marc knows so they can try and get him to call. Again, we still don't even know how she got the house number. But, what I don't understand is if someone asks you not to call, you don't call, right? The thing is, I have never been mean to his family. I've never met them, but different times I've talked to them on the phone I've never been mean or rude or anything even though I knew the things they were saying about me. I even wanted to go there and meet them and stay for a few days, but they told Marc I wasn't allowed to come over. I don't know why his family acts the way that they do and I've heard them say so many horrible things to him and all the things they've done to him. It's really terrible and makes me feel bad they treat him the way they do.
Has anyone else ever had problems with their boyfriend or girlfriend's family?
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