My boyfriend 22 white male and I 23 mixed black female, took our first vacation together to the mountains for my birthday.

Some background, he is the first white guy I’ve ever dated he usually dates women of color. The day of my birthday we went to breakfast, the town we were in is predominantly white so I was already getting strange looks when we first arrived, when we went into the restaurant my bf pointed out this guy and his wife that clearly looked like they were talking about us, constantly staring, we ended up eating outside. A few minutes into our meal he came outside and started a conversation with us. Asking questions about where we were staying, where we are from, how long we were staying (we didn’t give him information or we just lied). And saying how much is loves black people and talking about how he has a black son-in-law; mentioning how many black people he knows, talking about how much he loves interracial couples and how we are specifically a black and white couple. Made comments about my hair, or how some people in the town were very religious and supported the confederate flag and he kept emphasizing how he wasn’t like that.

It made me noticeably uncomfortable and my bf ultimately ended the conversation. On the drive back from breakfast he was concerned and talked to me about, I told him how uncomfortable it made me and I didn’t understand why he kept pointing out our race difference and it just felt like micro-aggression. My bf said he understands and kinda brushed it off because he said he has experienced that kind of interaction before with past gfs.

I’ve never had an interaction like that before and I didn’t really know how to respond to the situation and it made me really sad.

Any advice?