You're with a woman you really get along with on almost every front.
Yet there's something you need to decide how to deal with: her father.
He's the classic authoritarian father, who wants to put his children on a path (be it academics, to give them a specific career, or life, with marriage, or something else).
This makes him a bit of a hindrance to her decisions in her life.
What do you do?
Do you give up some of your freedom and decision-making if it can bring you some other benefits (networking, status, money, access to things), or do you simply go your own way, and actually tell her "Look, we live my way, not your father way" even if this will actually compromise her too?
So do you side with him and take the advantages or do you go your own way?
What are your experiences?
Yet there's something you need to decide how to deal with: her father.
He's the classic authoritarian father, who wants to put his children on a path (be it academics, to give them a specific career, or life, with marriage, or something else).
This makes him a bit of a hindrance to her decisions in her life.
What do you do?
Do you give up some of your freedom and decision-making if it can bring you some other benefits (networking, status, money, access to things), or do you simply go your own way, and actually tell her "Look, we live my way, not your father way" even if this will actually compromise her too?
So do you side with him and take the advantages or do you go your own way?
What are your experiences?