Do you think I should get married just because I got pregnant as a teen?
Please no hate but I'm a teen mom. My bf's family is really into cultural tradition; pretty much if a girl gets pregnant the boy usually has to marry so that neither of the families feel any shame from the community. To me even if it's tradition and we both come from the same culture, we were both raised differently (Him being traditional and me being more non-traditional). I feel like I'm still too young to be getting married, especially for being a teen mom! His family really hated me for not marrying him before the baby came and now his family is giving me until next spring to decide whether or not if I want to marry my bf, otherwise we can't talk to each other anymore and we'll have to stop seeing each other. I mean my bf doesn't even really care to hear why I don't want to marry right now and keeps thinking I want to leave him just because I want to be with someone else. He's taking his parents side into forcing a marriage basically because he wants to be a "good" son.
I'm just really mad that after all my bf and I have been through; I thought that he'd respect my decision to not marry right not and wait until later to see if things work out for us. While I was pregnant he kept saying hurtful things like, "no one would marry someone who has kids with some other dude when you get older." (Goes with our tradition apparently), he'd also say that he didn't see any point to marrying later in life if we already know we're going to be together. But now he says the relationship feels "more real" now that I had the baby and he's pushing for marriage.
I mean I really do love him and want him to understand where I'm coming from. I wish he could just leave his family tradition and see that it's not like that anymore. Marriage isn't always the answer. Now I just want to leave him but at the same time it's so hard to leave someone you love. What are you're thoughts on all of this?
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