I’m in an Interracial Relationship and My Family Doesn’t Know
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How do I tell my conservative parents about my interracial relationship?
How do I tell my very conservative parents that I am in an interracial relationship right now? For them, it's kind of like if you come from two different cultures, it's just not going to work. You're not going to get along. You'll end up in a divorce.
The fact that you even have to ask that question in 2025 makes my stomach turn. What's going on? What's going on? This is John with the Dr. John Deloney Show. So grateful that you're with us. We're talking about your mental and emotional health and your relationships, whatever you got going on in your life. Everybody I know is going through something. Sometimes it's really good stuff. Sometimes it's just challenging stuff, and sometimes it's dark and really hard. And that's what we do on the show, man. I sit with hurting people who are trying to figure out what's the next right move for me, for my marriage, for my kids, for my mental, emotional health, whatever you got going on. Here's my promise.
i'll sit with you and we'll figure out what's the next right move give me a buzz 1-844-693-3291 it's 1-844-693-3291 or go to johndeloney.com slash ask a s k all right let's go down the street here in nashville tennessee and talk to jess what's up jess hi how's it going i am rocking on to the break of dawn how about you
I'm a bucket of sunshine.
Dude, we need that in Nashville. It is G-R-A-Y out here. It is great.
Yeah, it is very cold.
Bring some of your bucket of sunshine out here to the office, man. That's awesome. So what's up?
So I am calling to basically ask, how do I tell my very conservative parents that I am in an interracial relationship right now?
The fact that you even have to ask that question in 2025 makes my stomach churn. Yeah. Forget the conservative. I know some very, very conservative. In fact, one of my closest friends in the world is way more conservative than me. What does politics have to do with this?
I think they're just very traditional. Maybe that's a better word for it. They're just very conservative, traditional.
I even know super traditional. Like, I don't even know if that's the right word. Because I know some, like, some crunchy, like, make their own granola. Like, I don't know. I'm just thinking of my friends in interracial marriage. Like, I...
I guess the fact that you're calling and asking this or you have apprehension about asking it is that you know your parents think two people in a romantic relationship from different ethnic or cultural backgrounds is somehow wrong.
It won't work out.
What does that mean?
I think that for them, from my understanding, for them it's kind of like, well, if you're in two different backgrounds, marriage is hard enough. And so if you come from two different cultures, it's just not going to work. You're not going to get along. You'll end up in a divorce. The world's going to crash and burn. We're all going to die.
Well, that's just stupid. God, so stupid. Here's the thing. I guess my – I have two kind of paths for just what I would call – I'm trying to think of a nice way to say this. I have two paths forward in my personal life on how I deal with abject ignorance. Path one is I don't engage. Like when people... I posted something yesterday. It's the start of the new year when we're recording this. It won't come out, I think, until late January, maybe even February. But... I just remind people at the beginning of the year, like, you have to get a will. You got to get a will, right? And 70-something percent of Americans don't have a will, which with kids is madness, right? And the number of people who send me a direct message that are like, you're crazy. You're an idiot.
They should be getting a trust. It's like, okay, dude, I'm not going to engage with that. That's like telling people who are 100 pounds overweight that they need to be doing cross – no, they don't. They need to go for a walk, right? So I'm not going to even address it because they're stepping over $100 bills to pick up nickels. I'm not going to address it. The second is in your situation, you can't not address it. And so when I have to address something, when I have to address abject ignorance, my commitment to myself is not to lose my honor, my respect, and my dignity, not to cash in my character because of somebody else's ignorance. So I am not going to get in a mudslinging contest. I'm not going to call names.
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