your GF's dad looks thrilled to have you around Tristam! have you told him you've slipped the beef yet
LOL, I thought about addressing FM's aside about the look on her dad's face. Korea is a very socially conservative country and her parents are very much a part of the old generation. Her mom likes me because I enjoy her cooking and her dad likes me because I bought him a bottle of whiskey (something my girlfriend recommended I do). Her parents threw a fit though when they saw us holding hands (!)
in public! I mean they really raised hell about it.
Here's the problem: Most Korean kids live with their parents until they get married, and most Korean kids don't buy a car until they move out, so they have no idea what true social independence is. My girlfriend is the same age as I am (22), yet she's forbidden to be alone in my apartment with me and she most certainly can't stay the night. Of course, they can't know that she comes to my apartment every day--but they do set a curfew for her, so I can't go to bed and wake up with her as I did back in the U.S., which kind of sucks.
So yeah, hand-holding isn't allowed (presumably not until we're married, I guess?), so to see her parents' reactions if they knew I plowed their daughter daily! I really shouldn't be disrespectful as they did allow me to live with them for a week (sleeping on the floor of her brother's room until I found my own apartment), but their attitude toward our relationship is so catastrophically retrograde that it's hard not to mock it. I'm from the heart of the Bible Belt, but I've yet to meet even devoutly Baptist parents who would lose their heads if they caught their 20-something-year-old daughter holding hands with her boyfriend.
