Skip to main content Skip to bottom nav

Breakup, different family economic status, and me kept trying to change him to be better

Kindlettering October 22nd, 2022

Just broke up with a pretty strange reasons:

  1. since the start of the relationship 20 months ago, my parents didn’t approve since his small family economic is not so good.
  2. I can’t be open to my parents about his parents are about to get a divorce. My parents and their families are very conservative Asian.
  3. I kept on pushing him to be better; learning how to drive a car, be a better communicator, be more talkative during family or friends meetup, yes I reflected that I am so controlling and I kept on wanting to change him so he could meet my family & friends standard.
  4. I appreciate him with his strange hobby that I don’t understand but I am not supporting him like I should’ve been. He tried to identify himself with his hobby on his social media, where there’s this stigma towards his strange hobby and I feel embarrassed of it, so I told him to separate his hobby and personal life so people wouldn’t misunderstand.

i’ve been raised as a people pleaser all my life and my parents been controlling me like crazy too. I am 27 this year yet they still treat me like I am a teenager, 8pm curfey etc, they won’t even let me get out of the house. Sometimes I am calm most of the time, but sometimes I kept on complaining to my ex so he can meet my family standard.


thats why we finally chose to breakup, in a very mature manner, we talked, then we played the we are not really strangers card game once more, made me cry since he’s the one understanding me through these last 2 years, no one else does.


anyone knows how to deal with this in a healthier way? I think I’m the the depression phase of breakup.


and ofc for my ex too, i want him to be happy too for i still care for him and he’s a very kind & gentle human.



2