5 FUNNY QUESTIONS FOR THIS MIXED COUPLE

5 FUNNY QUESTIONS FOR THIS MIXED COUPLE

Needless to say, we have received some funny questions along the way, and we still receive them. Some people have no filter whatsoever, they do not mean to offend or to harm, but it is hilarious what they think of. The type of questions that leave you in a state of ‘how in the world did you think of that’?

I understand that seeing us together and with a baby is unusual for some people, so I tend to answer those questions as seriously as I can. Unfortunately, our society is not yet ready to normalize interracial couples or any couple that doesn’t fit in that perfectly portrayed family.

So if you are not in the category of white woman and man, you will be stared at when you walk down the street and ask stupid questions. So here are five funny questions for this mixed couple.

YOU DIDN’T WANT A WHITE/ ROMANIAN GUY?

This question used to get asked a lot when we dated, mainly by male Romanian colleagues. They simply cannot comprehend that RACE and COUNTRY have nothing to do with our relationship. I didn’t go out with an Ecuadorian or a brown man. I went out with a guy who I find attractive and funny and cute, who happens to be brown and from Ecuador.

So to bluntly answer this question, no, I didn’t want a Romanian guy, simply because he is not Romanian, nor white for that matter.

What if he doesn’t like your country?

Well, that’s a bit irrelevant because we don’t live in Romania, we haven’t been there together just yet because of COVID, and if he genuinely doesn’t like it…I guess no more holidays there for him, LOL. It’s his right not to enjoy a country. That is my country, and I like it, I like all the fantastic things you can see there, the people, the hospitability, the food, I am proud to call myself Romanian.

He will never be Romanian, he can dislike the country, he will be a visitor. However, that is not the case. Anybody has the right to dislike a country they are visiting, think about the language barriers, the difference in culture. If they don’t click, they don’t click.

However, we watched plenty of videos with Romanian cuisine and places to visit, and he is excited to check them out.

WHAT DID YOUR FAMILY SAY?

My family said nothing to me, which I thought was odd. Mind you; these are the older generation who never saw an interracial couple apart from watching movies, I expected a lot of racist questions. But that didn’t happen, they only said he is tanned, which made me laugh hard, and that was it. They also said our kids would have beautiful skin color, and they were right.

On a different note, family members are allowed to have an opinion; after all, they’ve known you all your life, but the part that they should be interested in is how they treat you, and not how they look or where they’re from. That is the most insignificant detail about somebody.

WHAT ABOUT KIDS? WHAT LANGUAGE WILL YOU TEACH THEM?

All of them. Of course, I want my family to be able to speak with my children. Therefore, they will learn our language. And same goes for Bryan and his side of the family. Everyone wants to be a part of our daughters’ lives, and everyone should be able to talk with each other without a dictionary. And of course, they will learn English as they are British and they will go to nursery here.

Every family is different, and the parents decide what languages they want to teach their kids. We also want them to learn German and French, so we might look into nurseries and schools that teach these languages.

How do you communicate?

We talk! This is the question that winds me up a little bit. How could somebody be in a relationship without being able to speak? Yes, sometimes we don’t know how to say certain words in English, so we Google them, I also understand some Spanish, thank you Thalia, Gabi Spanic, and RBD, for your beautiful telenovelas, I have learned a lot.

But that falls in the category of immigrants, not so much interracial.