Summer 18'

I finally got to see Chubby yesterday

About 3 hours ago my boyfriend boarded his flight to New Hampshire. We are both bracing ourselves for long facetime calls and trying to keep our snapchat streak alive. We are now juniors in college and honestly I can say that time went by faster than any of us anticipated for. This summer has been particularly hard for me because I did a crazy but very fulfilling internship which required me to wake up at 5:30am every single day for ten weeks. I was also living at home which means I had to be under my parents rules which is something I have not had to deal with for over two years. I found myself holding a lot inside because I did not have a lot of free time to talk to my boyfriend who usually helps me get through my tough times. We found ourselves not talking alot as he was also busy with school. Things got really bad when I learned how to drive and my mom literally became paranoid and started tracking my every move. I felt as though I was always being scrutinized which made me feel uncomfortable. Despite that I was holding to hope that after 10 weeks my boyfriend would come back home and we could have at least some time together. However, when he did come back I asked my parents if he could come over because I wanted to celebrate my birthday with him. My mom who is usually home most of the time told me that I could not go see him because apparently my dad did not approve of my boyfriend. Let me also mention that at this point my parents know that I have been dating him for over 2 years. I was very heartbroken and I was no longer excited to go on my skydiving adventures. My parents argued that I started this relationship when I was too young and that because my boyfriend is of a different race, they were having difficulties accepting the whole situation. I will be the first to say that my parents are racist and I am not going to try defending them. My boyfriends parents have accepted me as their own daughter despite not knowing me very well. They see that I am happy with their son and they support us. I only wanted to get the same from my parents but I have had to face a hard reality that sometimes parents are not right. Just to give some context, my parents and I migrated to the U.S. about six years ago so maybe my parents had the hope that I was going to marry a person from the same race as me. Clearly even though my boyfriend and I are far from getting married I am pretty sure I will not marry someone from my race because I am attracted to other races. And even if I was to marry within my own race, I will still not go looking for a partner that my parents will approve of because I do not think that it should matter if ones parents approve of someone or not.  I obviously have a lot of anger in me and I hope that I was able to still make a clear point. So after I told my boyfriend that my parents did not want us seeing each other, he was very patient with me and did his best to understand where I was coming from. I really love him and it was hard for me because I felt that my parents were essentially asking me to break up with him. But being the strong minded person I am, I choose otherwise. I stood my ground and kept the relationship going. I am 20 years old and I will be out of college soon.I have busted my a*s off in school to make sure I have a job when I graduate and I will continue doing the same thing. I might not know what the future hold but I really hope my boyfriend is in it and if things go the other way well at least I will have the peace of mind of saying that I fight for who I loved.

PS* I was still able to find ways of seeing my boyfriend during the break.