Comments on: Advice: Saying goodbye without the anger and pressure

By: Brad K.

Brad K. — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:11:21 +0000

I think each of us makes our own choices. When we find someone we admire, we tend to search for other with similar backgrounds. That might be ‘just like Dad’, might be ‘like Grandma’, might be ‘like my best friend in school’.

Other times we choose to avoid those ‘just like Earl’ or whatever.

Looking for inter-racial dates is about like looking for any date. Start with the physical, and the odds of finding a loyal, disciplined, honest mate of integrity get really bad. Start with someone of good character, though, and your odds of a lifetime relationship get pretty good.

Besides – jessica is obviously pimping her web site on inter-racial dating. She isn’t offering any help to the question posed. Her advertisement just happens to fit this topic, mildly, and doesn’t seem to be too offensive – except that the site is about finding sex partners, not potential life mates. I won’t be taking her message seriously.

By: me

me — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:19:31 +0000

in response to sites searching for inter-racial partners; being on that site surely means that you have already decided that you can only be with someone of another race. i am in an mixed relationship but thats not because i specifically looked for a man of another race. surely the whole idea is to love the person before you love their racial background. if i look for someone on the basis of their colour i cannot then expect them to love me for me becuase they too have probably searched specifically for an african woman and so i am more of an idea of love than love itself. i hope to never be loved primarily for the colour of my skin and look forward to a time in which we all fall in love with the spirit and soul of another and not simply because we have ‘decided’ that men of our own colour cannot offer us what another race can.
no disrespect to anyone who chooses to use that site, the whole idea just seems slightly messed up to me but thats just my opinion.

By: jessica

jessica — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:46:46 +0000

As some of you know may know, I’m of Africa heritage. Hubby, on the other hand, is Caucasian. To most people, we’re an interracial couple. It’s nothing I really think about or notice, but other people (occasionally) comment on it.

As a result, I’m fairly sensitive to interracial dating. And I recently discovered InterracialChats.com, an interracial dating website for men and women who are specifically looking for an interracial relationship. The site features people of all ethnicities, ages and socio-economic backgrounds, and it allows you to search by zip code for interracial personals.

The user friendly site allows members to send messages to potential dates, and you can join for free. The profiles include plenty of information, such as age, marital status, children, pets, music and movie preferences, political views and more. With this much information, it’s easy to find someone who could be a great romantic match for you!

By: Brad K.

Brad K. — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 04:56:56 +0000

Ultimately, a relationship is one person, how you feel about yourself and how you feel about your mate. As long as you feel better being with your mate than you think you would feel without your mate, you have a relationship.

So when he agrees to live separate, he might be respecting what he thinks you want, he might be grateful to have time for himself, he may be relieved to see the separation as the beginning of the end of the relationship, he may just be relieved not to have either you or the interracial issues bothering him. Or something else, or all of the above.

From your comment about not wanting your hair fondled, I assume by ‘apart’ you mean you don’t live in Japan with him, but in another country/continent.

So what to do comes down to what you want. If you want a physical, amatory relationship I feel you have to be sharing small spaces with him, regularly. Shared breaths, shared pheromones, and shared awareness of the other on a physical level – smell, sight, sound, touch – these all are fundamental to bringing people together. That might be your guy, it might mean saying goodbye, and to become once again ‘unattached and available.’

Long distance relationships do work, occasionally. But most flounder due to suspicion, to anger, to the simple distractions of life. Until you understand why you are hurt and angry, you will likely be unhappy with any decision you make now, even if that decision is to wait and see what happens.

By: Jacky

Jacky — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:24:56 +0000

Social and personal pressures are both affecting your thoughts and life. For interracial, it is really not easy for others to accept it thoroughly and sometimes they give a curious something like that eye on interracial. So just keep your style and release your emotion properly, you can come back with your lover and interracial love.

By: Judy

Judy — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:08:21 +0000

You know, I am also in an interracial relationship with a guy outside of my race. oh,,,, guys, you can not image what I have met. I am a black cuttie girl and I just met my love half year ago and we will get married next month, and interracial love of course. Am I lucky? So lucky I think, and I wanna share my happiness with all of you here.

By the way, I found my half part baby on a great interracialchats site. He is really gorgeous, even sometimes he is a little shy. -:) If you try InterracialMatch.com, you also can be the next lucky one. LOL. Bye!! and good luck to you all.