5 year relationship

Hey there, firstly it sounds like your relationship is going well with your partner. Sometimes parents can be protective of their children, and often this is more about their own potential insecure feelings.

Sounds like the father may be blaming you unnecessarily, and he is going through his own journey of accepting his daughter's sexuality. A lot of this depends on how much your relationship is impacted by this and how your partner feels on their own journey of acceptance? Depends on whether the father is ready to listen too.

I guess giving people time and space to accept is the way to go. Sometimes we all need to be reassured that we are safe. In my own lived experience it was less so about convincing someone and more about focusing on healthy the relationship. Trying to convince my family about my sexuality and relationship took years of stress until I started to realise the issue was with them.

Focusing on your healthy relationship and occasional including parents etc on perhaps social activities, video calls to say hi etc may also help.


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Best wishes