Well, for me, the ironic thing is that my parents encountered a lot of opposition from THEIR parents when they were dating. My mom was supposed to marry an Italian Catholic, my father an Irish Catholic. Their joint Catholicism was pretty much the only reason their parents accepted the relationship at all!
I have dated Jewish boys in the past and my dad was pretty uneasy about that - heck, he even discourages me from dating boys who were raised outside of New England. Strangely enough he was okay with me dating pretty much whoever when I was in HS - but he and all of his siblings met their spouses in college, and suddenly I can't date people for the fun of the moment anymore... its weird
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