Okay, so nwlinkvxd and I got engaged over the weekend, and we told his parents about it. They are glad we are waiting until he graduates to get married, but they are also happy for us and his mom is already helping us plan a little bit. Heheh.
Now, the hard part: Telling my parents. No, nwlinkvxd didn't ask for my father's permission, even though I still live with my parents and I'm 18 and all. This is because my parents are...a little...strange about marriage. My parents were in their early thirties when they got married, they had no ceremony (only signing of papers), and went to Barstow ( practically a ghost town in California) for dinner- they had no honeymoon. They always grumble when we go to elaborate beautiful weddings, pointing out how expensive and stupid weddings are. My parents are already upset that I'm not going to a University of California and I'm going to a California State University instead, in order to go to school with nwlinkvxd. (I'm also going to a CSU because the UC I want to go to says that I have to take Pre-Calc and Calc before I transfer, as well as some other dumb general education classes...which I don't want to do.) My parents think doing things young is stupid and they dont really like my seriousness with nwlinkvxd already.
So now, I'm struggling to tell them about my engagement- yeah we're waiting a year before I move in with him, and two years before we're married...but still. I'm afraid they won't be able to understand how much I love him. He is probably the only thing in my life that makes me laugh as hard as I do, make me as happy as I am, or understand me.
Any advice at all? (I should mention that nwlinkvxd isn't home for winter break for another two weeks, and his mom is pushing for me to tell my parents so that she can print a newspaper announcement
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