I want to date her but my parents won’t let me! Posted January 18th, 2008 in Dr Thatslife Advice

 Justin, 18 from Knoxville writes…

“My ex-girlfriend and I are trying to get back together. We went out for 2 years and were really in love, we decided to take just a little time apart. We have been apart for almost 3 months and want to get back together, but my parents say that there is no way that I can because they don’t like her. How do I get them to like her? Please help me.”

 Dr Thatslife has this to say…

Common Justin, you’re 18, it has absolutely nothing to do with mommy and daddy anymore. You’re quite capable of deciding who you want to spend YOUR time with. Tell your parents to politely go fuck themselves. Could you imagine who you would be going out with if they were in charge? Some frigid girl that brings a batch of cookies to the door and goes to church every other day. And we don’t want that now do we Justin?

You need to say to your parents, “LOOKY HERE, I like this girl, we got along well for 2 years before without any major problems and we want to do it again. If you really object to her, you should have spoken up 2 years ago. I feel it is in my best interest to start seeing her again, and I only hope you learn to accept that this is MY taste in girls, not yours.” The point is here, we don’t want to get irate at them or anything you want to calmly state your reasoning behind the fact your going to date her anyway. I really don’t think you should compromise on this one, if you really do love the girl and you were apart purely because you two mutually decided you wanted some “apart time” then its totally in your right to get right back at it.

That’s Life!