Comments on: A Swede Meets the Indian Family

By: Kiran

Kiran — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:38:52 +0000

Sapphire – its reasurring to hear about your experiences introducing your swede to your family. Im British Indian with a Swedish boyfriend. Weve been together about 3 and a half years.

Love the advice, im sure itll come in handy! Poor guy studies history, Im sure my parents want me to marry a doctor/ lawyer/chartered accountant ^^.

By: T

Mon, 10 May 2010 15:59:07 +0000

@Kat hahahah…Good luck then, breaking that to them.

By: Kat

Kat — Mon, 10 May 2010 01:21:31 +0000

Haha, loved the “what we learned” list! My Swede is coming to visit in 16 days, and my mom asked if he was staying with me. “Yes.” And because she knows he’s tall, she made some comment about how my fold-out futon won’t fit him. “Oh well” is what I said. What I silently thought was “Do you really think he’s going to sleep in another room?”

Wow, the parents are gonna flip when I tell them I’m moving to Sweden, and I can only hope they don’t start asking questions about where I plan to live.

By: indianbelle

indianbelle — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:14:08 +0000

Hey Sapphire,

We’re not engaged yet (we’re still in our late teens). I don’t know what sambo is but yes, we do want to get married (only after we both obtain our respective Master’s degrees!).

Are you married yet? If not, I hope you’ll post a post (with pictures!) about it :P

By: Sapphire

Sapphire — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:09:57 +0000

Indianbelle – Amazing!!

My parents hoped for engineer or doctor. Thank god Porbjörn is a programmer, acceptable and well paid. Oh, and of course he has to have a Master’s degree.

It’s wonderful that your boyfriends understands the “marry the family” idea. Mine does as well, I hope that life then will be easier in the long run.

I forgot to ask, but are you guys engaged? Or sambo? Or whatever? =)

By: indianbelle

indianbelle — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:39:21 +0000

Lol, my Swede’s experience in India was quite similar! Everywhere we went, people would ask him where he was from and he’d say “Sweden”, and they’d nod or give a little head-wiggle and be like, “Ahh, Sweet-zer-lund!” I found it quite hilarious! :P

And I cannot possibly agree more with you when you say that when you marry an Indian, you marry the entire family! Thankfully, my boyfriend understands that. He’s very perceptive and sensitive about India and all her very many invisible intricacies :)

“There are expectations to behold”: My darling snob of a mother wants me to marry a Chartered Accountant or an Engineer. Every Indian mother’s dream son-in-law, I dare say. To fulfill this little wish of hers, my ridiculously sweet boyfriend has decided to be just that. A son-in-law (of course!) but a Chartered Accountant too! :)

Nonetheless, I know for sure that even after I am married to my Swedish Chartered Accountant, there will always be this niggling feeling at the back of her (and everyone else’s) mind – “there’s bound to be a divorce soon!” :P

Oh well, everyone’s in for a surprise then :)

By: krrishtiano

krrishtiano — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:06:11 +0000

good insight…I take back my comments in the previous post…seems like you are Indian too …welcome to the family…

By: Ashiya

Ashiya — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:31:31 +0000

haha very cute (and relatable) indeed!