My boyfriend and I met 6 years ago at community College. He has down syndrome. He is the sweetest person I have ever met in my life. They had this cute little Valentines party at our college and he asked me to go with him. I fell in love with him so quickly. His family are some of the nicest people in the world and have treated me so well. My family isn't really happy that I'm with someone with down syndrome. My mom thinks I'm so smart and I should be with someone more in my league. I understood their feelings at first, but I just thought after 6 years they would have finally gotten used to him. After all he is just so sweet and kind and everything I could ever want. It just seems they always have something to judge about. First they were upset that he didn't have a job. Then they were upset when he got a job doing maintenance. They blamed him for me not going to a university after community college but it had nothing to do with him. I had gotten a really nice high paying job opportunity and the amount it was gonna cost me to go to a university even with FAFSA was too much and I just didn't want to be in that much debt. So I took the job and I make more than most people make in the degree I was going for.

I actually ended up slapping thw shit out of my sister when she used the word retarded to describe my boyfriend. We didn't talk for a long time after that. On Christmas my boyfriend ended up proposing to me. He didn't have a ring. Instead he proposed to me with a flower. Honestly I really dislike jewelry so I liked this much better. We might not even get real rings because I will just lose them because I hate jewelry lol. My family has been extremely vocal about how they are against this marriage and how it's not too late to find someone on the same level as me. I told them to just not come to the wedding then. We may just end up going to the court house because we both want something small and private with just people who care about us. I would feel bad leaving his family out though, but I don't want to hear my family complain about how his family was able to come but they weren't. So we may just make it the two of us. I love this man so much and he has done nothing but make me feel loved everyday for the past six years. I wish my family could just be happy for me, but that may never happen. I can just grow my family with him!