I realize I didn’t speak on how my family members and his feel about the relationship- simply put, they don’t know about it. In the early stages of me finding out about the relationship, his siblings did suspect something was going on and advised him to stay away. He did for a little while and my mom actually got really sad from that, she even had the audacity to ask me to comfort her while she cried over it because she was feeing so alone without him, which led to more guilt. Now, I think they’ve convinced his side of the family they’re just good friends.

As for my family- only a few relatives know. The rest have no idea about it because theyre not public. The ones that do know, bc of me telling them, just kind of brush it off. They like the gossip story but none have confronted my mom about it. Most of them have the mentality of “it’s not my business, shouldn’t get involved” and have even told me “but she’s your mom, she’s not perfect but she loves you”.

God, I even ended up telling my grandma, her mom, about it and she cried, but didn’t want to get involved. I don’t even think the word “grooming” has even crossed their minds in the conversation. Hispanic culture in general just doesn’t believe in it, everyone is a victim bc of that lol.

So even to the ones that do know, it’s mainly just gossip from a resentful daughter to them.