Does anybody have any advice for or experience with introducing a BBW to your family when you are pretty sure things could not go well?
My girlfriend wants to meet my family. This is understandable because I've met her family several times, and they are great. My family is not so great, but I do see them a lot. I'm not reluctant to introduce her because I'm in any way ashamed of her, but because I would like to avoid subjecting her to my family for as long as I can. I think it I wait much longer she's just going to assume I'm ashamed of her, though, and she's going to have to meet them at some point, because I have a big family that gets together pretty often.
I have a sister who is just slightly overweight, and she gets a lot of comments from my parents and couple of our other siblings about what and how much she's eating. I stutter and they still seem incapable of letting me finish a sentence. They're just not people who are particularly tolerant of differences. I'm hoping they would be on their best, most polite behavior with somebody they've never met, but I'm not certain, and I'm very worried that they might be outright rude. It would hurt my girlfriend, it would probably reflect badly on me, and it's just not something I want to take a chance on. She has met one of my other sisters, and they got along great, but it's very important to her that she meet my parents.
I feel like this could be an unpleasant experience, and I really don't want it to be. Anybody have experiences with introducing a larger boyfriend or girlfriend to a family that wasn't too tolerant of larger people, or being introduced to one? Any advice?
My girlfriend wants to meet my family. This is understandable because I've met her family several times, and they are great. My family is not so great, but I do see them a lot. I'm not reluctant to introduce her because I'm in any way ashamed of her, but because I would like to avoid subjecting her to my family for as long as I can. I think it I wait much longer she's just going to assume I'm ashamed of her, though, and she's going to have to meet them at some point, because I have a big family that gets together pretty often.
I have a sister who is just slightly overweight, and she gets a lot of comments from my parents and couple of our other siblings about what and how much she's eating. I stutter and they still seem incapable of letting me finish a sentence. They're just not people who are particularly tolerant of differences. I'm hoping they would be on their best, most polite behavior with somebody they've never met, but I'm not certain, and I'm very worried that they might be outright rude. It would hurt my girlfriend, it would probably reflect badly on me, and it's just not something I want to take a chance on. She has met one of my other sisters, and they got along great, but it's very important to her that she meet my parents.
I feel like this could be an unpleasant experience, and I really don't want it to be. Anybody have experiences with introducing a larger boyfriend or girlfriend to a family that wasn't too tolerant of larger people, or being introduced to one? Any advice?
