From the beginning I knew my parents would disapprove of my relationship. So we dated in secrecy, honestly I didn’t think it would last long. But couple months pass by I fell in love with him. It felted as if he put a spell me. Those couple months was the best time of my entire life. A few months later I start panicking, I realize that he was going to be an important part of my life. But I knew in the long term my parents would’ve found out, I didn’t want to disappoint them. So I decided after six months of dating him, to end the relationship. It was the hardest thing I had to do in my life. I told him that my parent would never accept him and that this was for the best. He begged me, to think about my happiness rather than my parents. Over and over I cave in, I didn’t want to let him go I wanted to be him. So after many attempt of leaving him, my heart couldn’t so for a year, we kept dating secretly from my parents. Although that was the case, I met his whole family and he met all my siblings. Then graduation rolled around the corner, he picked me up and of course my mom saw me left with him. At my graduation party my dad gave me a speech about not dating outside of my race. It broke my heart. He couldn’t even wait until the party over to tell me that. That night I was super depress. I couldn’t wrap my mind on the whole situation. Six month pass and my parent started to figure out. One morning they gave me the talk. Right off the bat, they ask me “what is his race?” And when I told they weren’t please. My father yelled at me “You’re such a disgrace how could you kept this a secret, lied to me, do you want me to have a heart attack” he used every sentenced, I never imagine him say to me. Then my mom said “We are going to send you off to live with your uncle if you keep this up, YOU NEED TO BREAK UP WITH HIM” And my heart was shattered when dad said “I’m going to pull you out of school (College) and force you to work with your mom at the factory.” I was crying the whole time I couldn’t stop myself, I want to tell them that my boyfriend mean the whole world to me and that he was the sole purpose of happiness. But I couldn’t I froze in shame. My father had told me I ruin his reputation and that he will disown me. Word explain how felt that moment. It was the worst and most horrible moment of my life. And for weeks I stayed in my room crying, I told my boyfriend about it through the phone. I told him that this is exactly what I saw it coming but it was worse. What killed me was that I lied to my parents for a year and a-half, but I lied so they wouldn’t get hurt. I lied so that they wouldn’t hate me, so that they will still love me. I started to make plans to move out to live on my own, I was 18 and although I was young I knew what makes me truly happy. The best thing about the situation was that my boyfriend was 110% supportive on all of my decision. He told me to wait a couple weeks until I calm down before rational decision. After a couple week I told him that I want to be with him but I want to finish my 2 year of general then transfer out. He agreed with him, and still to this day we date in secretly. It has been 6 months since that incident. I still live with my parents although our relationship may never be same. The trust I built with them are in flames. They believe that I had broken up with him but they don’t know that my boyfriend is my happiness. And although lying isn’t healthy it’s sadly my only choice right now until I find a better decision. At the end of the day I don’t crave for my parent approve I don’t seek for their happiness any more. They judge base on pigment of his skin. They don’t like him but they never met him. Thinking about that night still breaks my heart. But I will respect them because they are my parents. I have been with him for two years now and for those wonder, I am Asian and he’s Mexican, both are 20 and we lived in the USA.