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In reply to the discussion: It Was Like One Slap In My Face After Another... Gay Husbands Go To Red America. [View all]Rozlee
(2,529 posts)My husband double-slapped his deeply racist family by marrying an Okinawan woman in the 50's and marrying me, a Hispanic, decades later after her death. His father and grandparents never forgave him or acknowledged his children, although his mother, after divorcing her husband, reached out to him again. She loved her grandchildren, but she always had a tepid relationship with his wife and I'm relieved I never met any of them as I married my husband in the 1980's (he's 20 years older than I am). The fact of the matter is, you're lucky that you have a supportive parent that makes up for the unsupportive relatives on your partner's side. We're a generation or two from winning over a great many more hearts and minds and the Southern Bible Belt will be the last to fall, kicking and screaming. These are the guys that still think the Civil War ended a year ago. Scratch that, they think it's still being fought.