I think one of the great things about being in an I/R relationship is the way you just forget about race. One of the funniest things that ever happened to us was that we were in a nice restaraunt and the waitress said, "Can I ask you guys something? Do you ever get strange looks or comments?" And I was looking at my husband getting really mad because I am a little bit older than him (but I don't think you can tell :) ) and I thought she was referring to the age difference. She could tell I was getting mad because she said, "The reason I ask is that my boyfriend's black." And I started cracking up- I totally forgot we were different races.

Who cares about race? I just don't want to look older than him! :rolleyes:

...my guy's (black) young neice (black) asked him if he knew I was white...I thought it was so cute and then she drew a picture of us, one white, one dark!

Those stories are so touching, and I agree with you Liz, being with a younger man and not wanting to look like it, I feel ya girl. We really haven't had much experience as we met while he was incarcerated, however we do have a slight difference when it comes to meal preparation, like he eats fried catfish with spagetti! he says that is black people food, and I eat yogurt and he says that is white people food things like that that let us know we are culturally different but that is about it. We embrace it and love each other in spite of it.

Staci

...because we have a very good relationship...we both can say when we talk things like...your people do this, eat this, wear this, and he has a way of always blaming white people, not in a vindicative way, just letting me know my people piss him off somtimes...all done in fun and the love we have for each other...we see no colors!

I know how weird this going to sound, but I actually forgot that my man was a different race from me until I looked him up on NYDOCS.

Name: Mr. Hope 4 US
Race: WHITE

I gasped literally...weird.:shrug:

My man is also younger, but no one believes it. I get id'd he doesn't.

The funniest thing that has happened to us was, we had just moved to a new city, I had a new job and all the newbies decided to go out for a drink. I asked if they would mind if I brought my man a long. Of course not. Well, we got there, and an older lady from hicks-ville said ashtoningly "He's black?!" I turned to him and said, in a shocking sounding voice, "How come you never told me you were black!" Needless to say, I had everybody cracking up. The woman explained that she was just surprised because I never mentioned his color before. He threw back a few root-beers on the rocks that night (he was not legal to drink yet then). What's even funnier is that the two became really close almost like a motherly type relationship.

I think one of the great things about being in an I/R relationship is the way you just forget about race. One of the funniest things that ever happened to us was that we were in a nice restaraunt and the waitress said, "Can I ask you guys something? Do you ever get strange looks or comments?" And I was looking at my husband getting really mad because I am a little bit older than him (but I don't think you can tell :) ) and I thought she was referring to the age difference. She could tell I was getting mad because she said, "The reason I ask is that my boyfriend's black." And I started cracking up- I totally forgot we were different races.

Who cares about race? I just don't want to look older than him! :rolleyes:
My sister is 15 years older than her husband. She moved to England to marry him 6 years ago and couldn't drive over there for almost a year so he had to drive her everywhere. When she finally got her license and car she went into one shop they'd been to many times and the shopkeeper asked "where's your son today?" My sister said "he's not my son he's my HUSBAND!" :eek:

Not I/R I know, unless you consider American and English a mixed couple...mixed up maybe! :rolleyes:

Well something funny did happen one time when he was at court and this wasnt the only time that this had ever happened but my boyfriend is Mexican from Mexico and he was needing to get his property released and now I had already talked to this detective and so here we are all standing there at the end of the court session and my boyfriend tries to tell the guy that he is wanting me or his brother to get his property anyways the stupid detective looks and me and says excuse me I forgot do you speak english or do you speak spanish and I just laughed and said ENGLISH!!!
And my BF and his brother and friends told me No No U should have told him No Habla Ingles'! :D
But another time we got pulled over and they called immigration and the border patrol had enough nerve to ask me and where is your papers??? and I was like I dont need papers, and he was like you dont need papers?:eek: :confused: and I was like Yeah I have a Birth Certificate and he was like a Birth Certificate doest entitle you to be in this country and I was like NO BUT MY SOCIAL SECURITY CARD DOES! and he was like Oh Your An American Yeah!!!:idea:

I always joke with him about who knows better not get pulled over or I might get deported out of my own country and the funny thing is that I dont think that I look like I would speak or come from any where else! Not that there is wrong with someone who does I just think that I look like your typical american Girl!:thumbsup:


God Bless

KarrieMI

I think one of the funniest things that happened between myself and an ex was when we went to see Save the Last Dance together and we got STARED at before, during and after the movie. He was like "We should just get up and start acting out the movie right now".

All his friends call me the white diamond because i'm the only white girl girlfriend out of his friends lol it's adorable.

My Baby breaks every white stereotype except for one: He can't dance if his life depended on it. LOL:D

I know how weird this going to sound, but I actually forgot that my man was a different race from me until I looked him up on NYDOCS.

Name: Mr. Hope 4 US
Race: WHITE

I gasped literally...weird.:shrug:

lol. i go through something similar. but it's more along the lines of, "what race will he be today?" since no one seems to really know what he is when they classify him. he's been so far, white (wintertime pale skin), black (he gets the color of a penny in the summer), hispanic (he speaks spanish...and he has an accent), and the cutest one by far,
:confused: "UNKNOWN" :confused: . haha. this time around they have his ethnicity and race both as being "white". it kind of turned me on when i first read it. :nospeak: :D

the cutest thing by far was his 16 year old and him speaking about me. he told her (a little nervous of what she would think) that i was black (a morena is the word he uses) and she said, "oh my god! that's so cool! is she dark-skinned? what does she eat?!" lol. i was like wow...i felt kind of on display, like some rare animal! lol. not exactly what he thought she would say, but it was a much appreciated relief in regards to what could have been said! lol.

I need to give my husband some credit for all the things he had to put up, one is part from the interracial relationship is also age. Everbody who sees me in person don't think i am 25, most of time i am mistaken for his daughter. One time when a contactor came in the house to fix the bathroom he went out and told his friends "Erik has a pretty 15 year old daughter" cause he saw me cooking that day. Our neighbor told this to my hubby, we just got married and we don't have a child. Most of times and this never fails, when somebody knocks on the door they ask "are your parents home?" i just look at them and smile - im the lady of the house =)

I think one of the funniest things that happened between myself and an ex was when we went to see Save the Last Dance together and we got STARED at before, during and after the movie. He was like "We should just get up and start acting out the movie right now".

LOL that's too funny cuz one of my ex's from way back when was black and we went to see Save the Last Dance too and the same thing happened to us. They were staring at us so much that I thought they were gonna ask for our autographs or something afterwards. :rolleyes:

i think its funny when he gets sunburned, blushes or is cold. or sometimes when he'd start getting sexual, i'd start singing "oh danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling" in my worst irish accent-he'd never be able to keep a straight face.

I forgot I did this, but reading these posts made me remember and it made me laugh. My husband and I have had a long and tortured past. At one point we were split up, but he got arrested, so he called me (as usual) to bail him out because we have always been there for each other, even when we were apart. Well, he's dark brown and I am pale white. I was mad when he called, and I was supposed to be going out on a first date with someone else. But, I had to bail him out so I cancelled my date and drove to this hick town where all the people are prejudiced to bail his dum a%$ out. The bail bondsman came and took all my info and asked what my relationship was to him. Well, we weren't even together then and I had been waiting for about 4 hours and I was just mad, so I said, "I'm his sister." My sweetie said when the bondsman went back to talk to him he did a double take when he initially saw him. ;) I had my fun in the middle of a bad situation!

My favorite and funniest. I have two very energetic boys that love mischief. When they get caught by somebody else doing wrong not one person looks at me and say's your children. One day my yougest threw sand and the other childs mom was mad... she looks at me and says "I can't believe this child is out here by himself, thats why mothers like us have to take responsibility for this kind of behavior. That are children will get walked on by kids like that. She was just going on and on. I was not saying nothing to her ( trying not to get angry) About 5 minutes later my husband walks up and picks my son up. She announce someone needs to tell him about his son. He walks up to where we are sitting and I said hey I need to tell you something, he gives me a strange look. I said "hey this lady is mad because OUR son threw sand at her son." Her mouth fell wide open and all you saw was this scared look on her face. Nothing else was said...

After my first husband and I separated, my daughter (who is black/white) and I (I'm a pale white woman) shared an apartment with a dark-skinned Panamanian woman. Anytime the three of us would go out to eat or to the mall, etc., everyone thought my daughter was my roommate's daughter. They would tell her what a beautiful daughter she had and then I'd pipe up and say "Thank you." The looks on their faces were hilarious.

--Candy

I am white but since I have been around hispanics my whole life (friends, boyfriends & family) I can speak fluent spanish. It just comes so naturally to me that I don't even think about it anymore. I even dream in spanish! Sometimes I will be talking on my cell phone in public or something and people will stop what they're doing and stare at me. Also sometimes when I'm with a boyfriend or friend and we're with their family people will talk about me and you should see their faces when I respond to them! Priceless.

I have a funny one! I have a little girl who is 4, me and her are both white and my man is half mexican/half puerto rican and very dark. Well anyway one night after we had put my daugther to bed we decided to take a shower together…in walks little nosey and trys to open the shower curtain when she saw two towels sitting on the toilet….well I told her to go back to bed and assured her the extra towel was for me. When I got out and went to tuck her in she said "mom why were you and MJ in the shower together?" I said we weren't honey…he is at the store…then she said "mom..don't lie, I saw brown fur." :eek: Well I didn’t have much to say to that one. I think she only seen his leg hair when she tried to open the curtain but it was hilarious, me and him still laugh at that.

My daughter also came home from her first day of headstart and I aksed her how it went and if she meant a lot of kids and she said "yep, and I have lots of brown friends like MJ" it was cute!! :)

My Baby breaks every white stereotype except for one: He can't dance if his life depended on it. LOL:D

lol! the same with me girl...;)

funny! when my mom saw the picture of my baby for the first time, she gasped and said, "he's a white boy?", and then she paused and said, "well atleast he's cute!" LOL!

My youngest daughter is black-westindian/whilte and has a darker complexion then me(I'm pale white) well her Grandmother is light skinned and anytime we were out together they would always walk over to my ex mother-in-law and tell her what a beautiful daughter she has. My current B.F. is black too and I sent him pictures well one of his bunkies saw my daughter and told him he has a pretty daughter. he was like ahhh yeah thanks ( he has a son) LOL

My ex and I went to meet his mom, everyone had told her I was white based on the color of my skin... but in general my features are my hispanic side... she looks at me and looks at him then says... "She's not quite white". I couldn't help it I started laughing so hard...... from his sister I got this... we were sitting at a table eating lunch and she kept staring at me.. I was like "WHAT!"... she said "you know if it were dark I wouldn't even know you were white, your lips are so full".

Damn it I am mixed... but so is he!

people of his race and mine just stop and stare like they never seen a puerto rican woman and a black man b4

Hmmm, I (black) was on the phone with my baby (white), when one of my homegirls hits me on the nextel, I talk to her for a minute, then say I'm gonna hit her back when I finish talking to him, she says 'oh did I interrupt something' ... I'm like nawww I'll get at you. She's all like 'whatever, I'll let yall go so he can keep pretending he's giving you that good pink wood.'
LMAO... He's like... what did she say ? :lol: