Search Results: should we keep trying

Well, I did try my best to keep it to two parts. I did not succeed. At least it is 3 parts and not 30- which it would have been minimally- had I left in the years, duration, and government systems…still sucks I had to take it out. Oh well and thanks for playing 💚

Hmm, also the numbers in the poll refer to numbers overall, not just each post. For ex, so you know more than say 20 overall but not in an individual post you can still put 20 on any of the posts. I should have explained that earlier. I’ll update the other posts.

My apologies 👐🏻👐🏻

Droupadi Murmu India

Liz Truss United Kingdom

Giorgia Meloni Italy

Dina Boluarte Peru

Nataša Pirc Musar Slovenia

Borjana Krišto Bosnia and Herzegovina

Christine Kangaloo Trinidad and

Evika Siliņa Latvia

Sylvanie Burton Dominica

Myriam Spiteri Debono Malta

Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova N. Macedonia

Judith Suminwa Dem Republic of Congo

Halla Tómasdóttir Iceland President

Paetongtarn Shinawatra Thailand

Claudia Sheinbaum Mexico President

I am currently facing a situation where I don't know what to do. My family has been toxic throughout my life and has not allowed me any privacy growing up, which already takes its toll. I had to sneak around and date once I reached college because of how crazy my family was about it, to the point my serious 4-year relationship ended over it. Now, I have gotten serious with a guy (engaged), and my family disapproves of him because of his financial status (he doesn't make enough) and thinks he's abusive/disrespectful towards them and me. For example, my mom claims he's disrespectful because he hung up the phone on her while she was speaking. But she purposely interrupted my phone call with him, knowing that got him mad since we were trying to spend time together.

I lived with him (7 hours away from family) for a couple of months before my family got involved. My sister came saying that my mom wasn't doing well health-wise, and I had to leave to visit/take care of her. My partner didn't want me to go, but I didn't want to leave my family hanging, so I left. I came to find out that they planned to keep me here from June (when my sister came) to September/October for a "ceremony" where they could do their rites of passage before marriage. Still, I'm not confident they will actually do that with the way they all have been behaving about it as it's getting closer to time.

However, my partner has his quirks and isn't perfect. He does have trust issues because his last girlfriend cheated on him, so he fought over looking through my phone a couple of times in the past, but that's gotten resolved like other issues we had before. He marches to the beat of his drum, so he'll tell people if he doesn't think something is right according to his morals.

I don't want to compromise my relationship with my family, but I'm afraid that'll happen regardless. I understand my family's concerns about him, but he's not the bad person they portray him as. Help.