I’ve been dating my current partner for a month now. We work together (bakers), and one day he invited me over to his house and I pretty much never left. Within a month my entire life has changed, and I’ve never been happier. My boyfriend is 39, and I’m 22. When I came out to my family about my new relationship, my dad immediately started calling him a pedophile, and now hasn’t spoken to me in a month; He just stares at me and looks away. I’ve made the attempt to have a conversation, and I get silence in return. My mom got drunk and went on a tirade to my best friend in the beginning, telling her I was “easily manipulated”, and she needed to “keep me busy to keep me away from the creep”. She ended the conversation with, “Old man dick 🤢”. I’m not able to have sex; I’m asexual. She said all these disgusting negative things about me and him in her messages; I didn’t come home or speak to her for 4 days. When I confronted her last week, she claimed she didn’t mean any of it, transferred me $100, and gave me $13 in cash for “whatever I wanted”. The things my family has done/said behind my back makes me resent them. My mom confessed yesterday she had my grandpa (ex detective) run a background check on my partner because the entire family was “concerned”. I didn’t want them involved in my relationship, I don’t speak to them, and I don’t see them; It’s none of their business. My friends also haven’t been the most supportive either. They crack dark rude jokes neither me nor my partner find humorous. It’s gotten to a point where I’ve gone completely off grid ignoring everyone, and have decided to keep him private because I’m tired/annoyed of the attention this is bringing towards us; I refuse to post or show photos of us because I’m done with the negative backlash. I keep things to myself now because whenever I tell my partner, he gets EXTREMELY upset over the things people are saying about him. It pisses me off to see him so affected by the disgusting words people in my life have said about him; It breaks me. Everyone on my end has everything negative to say about this, and I’m done. If anyone wants to be involved in my life anymore, they need to learn how to respect me and my partner BOTH. They disrespect ANYTHING about him, they lose me. Neither of us deserve this, and we’ve earned this slice of happiness we both stumbled upon.