Did you ever date someone just to tick off your parents?

Question

My sister went through a phase of only dating Isrealis. She learnt Hebrew and threatened to convert, which obviously upset my dad since we are Catholic.

In High School I went out with a laid back Durbanite surfer a few years older than me who had dropped out of school. He had a penchant for the dramatic … he told my dad he was going to marry me even before he asked me out. It lasted as long as the December school holidays.

Answer 1

No. That's childish.

Answer 2

Oh no, never...  

I only decided to dye my hair a bluish black and go totally goth on them. My mom prayed every night as she thought I was satanist.

Answer 3

My parents hated my husband, he is British, and everything foreign to them, i dated him for 5 years, the last 2 years in secrecy, then I told them you either going to gain a son or lose me......and married him. Today they adore and love him as their own son. Parents can make mistakes.........

Answer 4

I was very shy in school, and my parents were very glad when I actually had a date !

I'm sure they did not care who it was.

Answer 5

Yes, to some degree. I mean, I liked him, but my parents did hate him.

He was my creepy blood-drinking I-think-I'm-a-vampire, violent, file-my-teeth-to-fangs, cutter, crazy, I-want-to-sir-you, lunatic boyfriend. I now identify him as my "what the h**l was I thinking" boyfriend...

Answer 6

no i never did or will. i only date someone who i think is right for me, not to make someone mad.

Answer 7

I was more inclined to listen to my parents' advice when I was a teenager, then realised that there was never going to be a Mr. Right for me as far as Mum was concerned.

Answer 8

No, but i did date a guy with a motorbike that they did not approve of, they never like bikes

Answer 9

Not deliberately, no, my mother however always told me to preferably date English girls and to ensure that I never married an Afrikaner, she would say that I could look at my Afrikaans father (English speaking) as motivation as why not to, I in any case usually found myself dating Afrikaans girls, they were always drawn to me (I'm not being arrogant, please excuse me if it comes across that way), I also ultimately married an Afrikaans girl whom my mother gets along with better than she does with me, I guess she was wrong although she will never admit it.

She now denies ever saying any of the above, I suppose she has to, with mine and my wife's bloodlines, my son, her grandson is 3/4's Afrikaner.

Answer 10

No I haven't done it to tick them off intentionally. However, I did date someone whom they did not approve of mainly because he was from the other side of the rail way track. It lasted 6 months, my parents were glad when I broke it off and franking now I am too.

Answer 11

No, but i've dated someone my mom didn't like, but not to p**s her off, I really liked him.