I’ve been with my boyfriend for 5 years almost 6 and today he popped the question. I said yes. I was really happy about it and honestly I feel like I had made the best decision ever to decide to spend the rest of my life with the boy I grew up with since we were just 6 years old. We decided to start dating in 2015 just new freshman in high school(we were also high school sweethearts even though we ended up going to different schools). We did have a bumpy start to the relationship because my parents didn’t like his background since his family has a “known name”. To put it short, drugs. However he never got caught up in all of that and stayed away what was going on. Ever since I’ve known him he’s never did any drugs, except smoking weed.

I come from a religious household where my grandma was strict about having me and my brother reading our daily devotional every morning and my mom and dad taking me to church every Sunday. He didn’t experience that. I’ve grown away from the church side since then and have leaned more spiritual now.

We’ve had kinda a toxic relationship going on a couple years ago and now that things have been better I was hoping everyone would be happy for us because we even have a kid together and this makes things more stable for us. We posted online that we were engaged and like only 4 of our friends even said “congrats”. None of my family members are happy, Not even my mom. She had the audacity to tell me “we’re not prepared or ready for this” but yet I see lots of other of my friends doing fine even though they’re not as prepared either. Hell my freaking best friend said yes to a pedophile yet here and can’t even get approval over my own family for who I’m with all because his background and “how he looks”. Yet when my friend posted about it she got a lot of congratulations and people were happy for her.

Maybe I’m just jealous but honestly I just thought so many people would be happier for us because we’ve really been trying our best to do each other better and we have been. 😭💔I guess if anything’s for sure, I’m happy I’m no longer going to be “apart” of this family if they can’t even support or give us any love. Because when everyone else got engaged, I congratulated them. It’s also upsetting that I don’t even have any true friends for bridesmaids because all my “friends” have a tendency to talk behind each others back and still act like they’re cool with them. While my now fiancé has his two best mans. Maybe I’m an unlikable person because I’m blunt but at least I don’t hold anything back from people and I’m honest but honestly? This is just so upsetting. My head is spinning and I just want to cry.