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[quote=Anonymous]Did the son want to alienate his parents by waiting one week before his wedding to inform them that he was getting married to someone they never met? Cultural issue aside, that's alienating for any parents.

The parents didn't know he was dating anyone. Who doesn't introduce their SOs to their parents if they know that they're in a serious relationship that's headed towards marriage? And no, I don't feel sympathy for the son because the mother would've disapproved. It's one thing to not tell your parents about someone they would've disapproved of when you're just dating. It's whole another issue to deliberately hide a potential spouse from your parents. If you love someone, you fight for them. That includes fighting with your parents for them to accept that their child will be marrying outside their ethnic group.

It would've made more sense to have this situation sorted out before the stakes were so high. Maybe the mother would've accepted the fiancee if she got to know her as a person. Maybe she would've come to terms with the situation if she had more time. Maybe she would've chosen to come to the wedding just to support her son even if she still disapproved of his new wife. We will never know. Because right now, the mother's pissed off and there's only one week before the wedding. If the son wanted to his mother to accept his non-Vietnamese fiancee, then this wasn't the way to go about it.

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