Interracial Couples?

ME!

Except boy...I was so surprised how accepting my entrie family is.

I am so happy with them

Yup! My entire side of family are all interracial (grandmother is white and grandfather is mixed) and FH's family is white. I'm wondering hos it's all going to go because our families haven't met at all yet.

I am not. My older brother's wife is white, my 3rd brothers ex wife is Guyanan. I will be the first on his side though. His grandpa and grandma were racists. Don't know if this is good to say but they won't be at the wedding as they have passed.

Well fh is mexican and he is the first in his family to date a white girl . but his family is very excepting of me being white . but on another note my side of the family is not very excepting they think you should marry your own . so i guess that's why most of them are not invited to the wedding . but most of my friends that are going are interracial couples .so i don't have to worry about that.

It sucks that people are still this way. i don't see the issue as long as people are happy. my family has a bit of everything mixed in.

my fh's brother married a white lady. her family was opposed to her marrying a black person so the only person on her side that showed up to the wedding was her mom. that's just sad.

I never thought of it to be an issue at all. My hubby and I are both African American, but my family is mixed (down the line, somewhere), enough that we are very fair skinned. I get teased quite a bit (all of his family is his complexion and there aren't very many light skinned folks in Florida), but it's all in love. And I get right back at them.

I'm in an interracial relationship FH is Guyanese my family accepts him but it is still a lot of cultural differences taste in food the largest issue. His family still lives in Guyana so they can't come to the wedding. His family is very sweet.

I am in interracial relationship I'm black and fh is white , I have a cousin that I am close with that is married to a white guy and, but on fh side his brother is married to a hispanic women and from the stories I heard they gave her a hard time when she came into the family from the older brother (parents are deceased just 4 boys) I guess thats maybe why i feel weird around them.

My mom is white my dad is Hispanic. they were the first interracial marriage in my family. my husband marring me was the first interracial in his family. (he's white i'm half) my sister just got engaged over this week while in the hospital. her fiance is (i mean n insult!!!) black/colored or what ever the correct word is. if my grandmother was in her right mind she would be furious! i have herd stories of when my mom and dad started dating my grandmother was so mad. lol

Yea we are firsts on both sides at first my family hated him said he was ghetto lol but after I had my daughter 5 yrs later I might add they love him like he is one of us all they do is compliment how good a dad and man he is to me and how lucky I am but his side well his brothers like me but his mom and sister are mad that I'm Mexican and now his brothers are dating they are younger than FH and they are all dating Mexicans so his mom and sister aren't happy about that

Well Im white and he is blk... both of my parents are passed. Im not the first though.. My great niece is mixed. I am the first to marry out of my race in the family though.. They havent really said anything about it.. His family has been great.. his parents and grandmas love me.. why not? lol We do get alot of looks from other people though. We get looks from white peps but SOOOOOOO much more with blk peps.. He even pointed this out to me.. I was like ohhhh welllllll... Im not going to make everyone happy. As long as he is happy and I am happy that is all i am going to worry about..

I guess I'm in an interracial relationship. He's spanish and I'm white. I don't consider it that, but he does.

Doesn't make a difference to me. I've dated Asian, Black and now Spanish. If you're good to me, and the relationship is good, I don't care if you're purple and from Saturn.

Thanks for all the responses! It's sad that it still makes a difference to some families- and I agree with @Shara- we get looks from some people too. I have noticed more and more interracial couples in Charlotte, though- so I think the stigma is starting to diminish, even in the south!

I'm white, FH is Salvadorian. My cousin is white, husband is phillipino. As long as we're happy our families are. My parents were more worried about religion being an issue than race ever would...but we're all Catholic so that worked out well.

For generations, on my side there are a few before me, aunts, uncles, cousins, but FH has been married before and both ex-wives were black. FH is Dutch and his family adores me even though we FB and text since his family is in the Neitherlands and vice versa my family adores him. My mom gave her blessing before she died and told FH that she loves him and truth be told my mom is hard to please, she didn't like my son's father. But when we are out, we get stares from more black people than other races, mostly men are shocked.

I still augh at our new neighbor below us when he saw me getting stuff from my car, and he was like "oh hello sweetie, you can be wife" and that is when FH came up and he said she is already spoken for LOL.

Both DH and I are breaking the chain on this one! Granted, my family is a pretty big mix from German/Austrian/Irish/Slovic and.. oh I don't know really.. but DH's family is purely Cambodian and my family is as pale as they get, we are officially having the first "mixed" baby and taking a step into the 21st century. ;P hehe I kid.. our families aren't racist by any means.. his sister has dated plenty of other people, not based on their heritage or skin color.. but we're the first in our families to marry outside of our own race.
I wasn't sure how my grandparents would take to our dating at first, just because no one else had dated someone of different race before... but they were extremely accepting and my grandmother was hilarious, she kept saying silly stuff like "I know a cute Chinese boy at the after school program I work for!" or she would talk about how she likes some Asian foods.. she's a little less "I'm trying to show you how much I accept you" now.. haha old people..

-One of my daughter-in-laws is white & my lil grand-man is mixed & love them both to pieces.

-I also have male 1st cousins that are married to white women, a hispanic woman & an uncle that married a Native American Indian, all on my mother's side of the family so I have a lot of mixed family members. However, the females in my mother's side are phoney & not very accepting at all.

-She's my aunt, they're my cousins, she's my daughter-in-law, he's my grandson, no matter what race they are I love them all & they're what make up my beautiful colorful family. I don't hate I appreciate!

My ex is Peruvian, I'm not.

The first time I met his extended family his grandmother made a very rude comment over dinner, he turned to her and said "We're the same species, human.", she shut up right away!

If there is any disapproval just take it easy and try not to take it personally, eventually they will come around and if they don't then take it as their loss.

My first husband was Puerto Rican. His family was very accepting of me from Day 1. My family - that's another story. My parents, aunts and uncles are very "old school".

It took years for my family to accept him than once he was accepted. He started going thru crazy midlife changes, including hard drinking, drugs, other women, etc.

After 12 years we divorced. It sucks because I didn't marry the right one, regardless of color or creed.

I never thought about being the first until seeing your thread, but yeah, H and I are. By the time DH came along everybody who knew me knew I tended to date guys from all sorts of backgrounds. I had a friend in college who used to say I was building a model U.N. I always had a very diverse group of friends, so I think that was related to my dating life kind of mirroring my outlook.

We're both the first to marry someone from another ethnic background (he's Indian). It was hard for his parents before they visited the US & met me. I was the first white person many relatives in India had ever seen in person/met. The staring over there is a whole other level, but a lot of that is cultural and in the sense of how rare a white person is, not just when people realize we're together.

We're lucky to have families that are not entrenched in racism or prejudice. Living in a metropolitan area helps too.