Do you share bout you love stories with your parents?

@Sangkala (238)
Indonesia
June 28, 2009 9:33pm CST
Do you share and tell your parents when you fall in love with someone? or when you have a bad time with your girl/boyfriend? or just tell them about how you and your lover spend time together.. well i don't, not a word till now.. i just embarrassed when telling about my love stories with my parents. but i enjoyed much to hear when my parents tell their love memories with me, how they meet, etc. funny, and also romantic.. what about you?do you share with your parents?
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9 responses
• Philippines
29 Jun 09
like you, no i don't and i haven't. not because i was embarrassed or anything. i guess i wasn't raised that way that i could freely talk about boys when i was young, and about guys when i became older. my parents were too strict so those kind of talks were just between me and my sisters. my parents were very old fashioned and not demonstrative. it's hard for them to relate to the intricacies of relationships nowadays because they lived in another era somewhat. in my parents' case, if anyone brought home a boyfriend, it means you're serious and you're planning to get married already.
• Philippines
30 Jun 09
although my parents' generation is so old fashioned and conservative, the generation of my sisters and brothers is more open minded. i don't have a problem with talking about my relationships now because my family is supportive of me no matter what i decide for myself. they know i'm responsible for my actions so pretty much they never interfered with anything i do.
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@Sangkala (238)
• Indonesia
30 Jun 09
yeah, it is nice to have someone in the family that we can talk and share. i have 2 sister and 1 brother. the one that closest to me are my younger sister. with her i can talk more about my problem with my girl, not much tough..
@Sangkala (238)
• Indonesia
30 Jun 09
i was growing in that's condition too, all talk in my family just some light conversation. but yes the conversation became more serious sometimes, but most likely we didn't speak much. now a days. as the time goes by, i've try to became more open mind and jump into more social activity. i think thats time will come to you too.. have a nice day.. thank
• United States
2 Jul 09
Yes, I do. My mother is like my best friend..So, I tell her everything. I've been married for 2 years now.. and she knows all the bad times and all the good times that we've had.. most of them anyways. I think ever since I've opened up to my mom about this a few years ago.. her and I have became closer than ever! and it feels great. and I think she really appreciates that I'm open with her about everything. I don't know what I would do without her!
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@Sangkala (238)
• Indonesia
3 Jul 09
hi.. it's great that you can opened up with your mother. to be honest, married is like a new life to me. since i got married, slowly i getting started to opened to my parents. i feel more comfortable with my mother, but i trying to be more closed with my father. i still don't talk much about my household affair with him.. thanks..
• Philippines
3 Jul 09
oh! i'm envious! i want to be bestfriend with my mother! but i'm too shy to tell her everything. we're close but not that close enough to tell her some of my love stories. i'm happy for you! :D
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@sameroad (3179)
• United States
29 Jun 09
no.. i don't ever tell my parents about my love life... i would feel weird... sometimes i kind of want to because i want my moms help, advice.. but i'm gay and they don't know it and i really don't have a life so it's not like i can easily hide things like that... someone new comes into my life they know about it as i don't have many friends. i always play my girlfriends off as just friends to my parents.
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@Sangkala (238)
• Indonesia
30 Jun 09
yeah, it's weird too for me.. some of us can easily speak and tell what in their mind to everybody else, but some of us just find that's very difficult to even just talk to somebody.
@indahfth (11161)
• Indonesia
6 Jul 09
I did not share, but I tell if I have a boyfriend. my parents did not ask. parents just want to know if I have a relationship with someone.
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@Sangkala (238)
• Indonesia
7 Jul 09
i think you are a honest person. others maybe will have to lie when their parents ask them about their relationship, especially about love relationship.
• Philippines
3 Jul 09
me too, i can't even say a word! i'm not used to telling my love stories to my parents. i'm too shy sharing my stories to them. but one time, i accidentally told my mother one thing about us, and it started to freak me out... oooppsss... haha. :D
@Sangkala (238)
• Indonesia
3 Jul 09
lol.. yeah accident happen sometimes.. hope your mother forget about that soon.. ;)
• India
3 Jul 09
no i don't share these things with my parents.. i think there is a huge generation gap between us.. they might say that they can understand you(they even try to do that also) but its simply not possible for them to think in the same way we think..
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@Sangkala (238)
• Indonesia
3 Jul 09
hi onlysahib.. you know, i read your responses from my other topic discussion, like you said there, nothing impossible. generation gap yes, absolutely. but that didn't prevent our older to understand about what their younger problem have to face nowadays. maybe they didn't think the same way as they child, but i think that mostly because they have more experienced than us. been there done that, some like that. or maybe just because they trying to protect us, their children. i don't say all the parents in the world are perfect, some of them protect their children too much, very strict. some of them just didn't care what their child doing. and some other, like you said, have difficult to face the generation gap. i don't share with my parents either, but mostly because i didn't get used to it. i didn't growing up in opened family. but i am trying to be more opened to my parents. yes, not those love stories, maybe some other things. lots of thing in the world that we can share with our parents right?.. thanks.. ;)
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
29 Jun 09
I have been in a couple of long term relationships...including marriages...so, yes, I've shared some things with my parents but never the bad times until the relationship ended. I had this problem with my first husband. Every time we had an argument he ran to his parents and the result was that I grew distant from them because I felt that they looked down on me from his one sided version of the events.
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@Sangkala (238)
• Indonesia
30 Jun 09
yeah, that's another reason why i didn't shared with my parents. my wife also did like what your first husband did. she always tell her parents almost anything about our relationship. it is ok for me if she told about our good times parts, but when it's come to the stories about our bad time, that caused trouble for me. yes that makes my relationship with her parents became wide apart for a moment. i have told her not to talk much about us to her parents, but she keep doing it. akhhh...
@pratheep87 (1227)
• India
29 Jun 09
Yes i share my love with my parents. I am so frank to my parents and so i share my love with my parents.
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@busky5 (3164)
• Thailand
5 Aug 09
I don't talk about love stories to my parents.I and my parents don't have a romantic stories to talk together.I can talk about suffer stories together.