Real Stories: ‘My fiancé’s family disowned him for marrying me’

My fiancé, now husband, and I have been together for five years. I’m a 28-year-old black woman, and he’s a 30-year-old white man. We met through mutual friends and instantly clicked. He’s kind, thoughtful, hilarious in the weirdest ways, and from the start, we knew we were building something real. But not everyone saw it that way. His family is deeply conservative, and from the beginning, they made it clear they didn’t approve of me. Not because of who I am as a pe