your family and friends or your partner??

I have been hurt by friends and family in the past so most likely I would take the chance and stay with my partner. This is actually kind of happening to me right now with my friends as none of them call me since I now live in another county away from them. They feel as if I have changed to much for my fiance, and I disagree....

I find myself very lucky because my family and my friends like my fiance,and have accepted her,and have accepted that I want to marry her,but if it came down to where I had to choose either love or keeping my family and friends happy,I would choose love,because you only find it once,and my friends and family would eventually get over it.

Well my husband and I are also quite a big age gap and yes people did get worried. My mum, my dad, his mum and his dad. And surprisingly my grandma and granpa and his grandma were the ones that were the least worried. They were so nice to us both.!!! LOL But we knew we were for each other so we stuck it through thick and thin and we are now happily married. We even got "worried high top post church people" counselling us as in labelled under "concern".We have also been in situations where the labelled "concerns" tried to seperate us!! We remain polite and calm and stuck through. If it from the Lord it is from the Lord. And as for friends, they did realised a change in me when I stopped hanging out with them and spent more time with my husband to be back then. They didn't understand but there was no squabbling but i know they were talking behind our backs. But now one of them got married and has "understooded" the stop hanging out thing.

I would surely like to take a chance to choose my partner because I really love him and do not want to lose him. I do love my parents a lot but I would surely like to take a chance. As far as friends are concerned, friends are meant to support you in every situation, in bothe bad and good times. But we do not spend our life with our friends, we have to spend our life with our partner and we do have the right to choose our partner.

Luckily, my family likes my partner for the most part, and most of our friends tend to be mutual ones. But there was a time when I was younger that I dated a few people my family didn't like. In those cases, I stuck with the person until I had a reason other than just the fact that my family didn't like them. They were some pretty poor choices in retrospect. But my current partner, she and I have been together something like seven years, and so far the problems getting along with my family has been minimal. But even if my family didn't like her, I wouldn't leave her because of it. My family will always be there - they can learn to accept me and who I choose to spend my life with or not, but it's still my life and my decision to make, and I'd rather spend the rest of my life with someone who makes *me* happy than with someone my family - who, they might love me but none really KNOW me since my grandmother passed - might 'approve' of more but who I don't really love. That would be a really awful way to spend your life, I think.