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It's Monday, August 25th, and can you imagine ladies, taking your fiancé home to meet your parents.

And your parents didn't even know you had a boyfriend to begin with.

And with that, welcome to this relationship edition of Amy and T.J.

Where we go over our Ask Amy and T.J.

column question from a reader on Yahoo.com.

You can find it in the life session section.

Robs, this is one that you almost cannot believe.

Almost sounds like something from a rom-com.

That kind of a scenario. It actually does,

now that you pointed out, this will get into her full question to us, but to sum it up, basically,

she is from a culture, she says, where you have to have your parents' approval before you can

get married, period. There is no wiggle room. And so because

of that notion, maybe she was worried that maybe her partner or her romantic, her boyfriend,

wasn't in line with what she thinks her parents want for her. He wasn't up to par.

Right.

Or maybe he's, it sounds like he's, because she said they're from different backgrounds,

that's how she put it, she thinks that perhaps he might not be accepted.

So instead of explaining this to her parents, having them warm up to the idea of a boyfriend

or a partner from a different culture.

She just didn't tell them anything.

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