Greek Family
WOMAN WILL BE GREEK ENOUGH FOR HUSBAND’S FAMILY, DEAR ABBY:
I married a man whose family never accepted me. Being young and naive, tried everything to fit in, converting from Catholicism to the Greek Orthodox faith, attending family functions, including them in our lives. It was enough.
My husband and I traveled to Crete with his family visit his relatives there, and some extended family members refused to the dinner table with me because I was not Greek. One of those members was a priest!
Our daughter, “Athena,” was born years later. What broke the camel’s back for me a Christmas dinner when she was 6. My father-in-law gave cards with $100 all the grandchildren of Greek heritage. Athena received nothing and cried hours wanting to know why her grandfather didn’t love her. My husband just tried to neutral.
Abby, how far should someone have to go to fit in with their husband’s family?
— IRISH IN NEW HAMPSHIRE