How to get good with Filipino parents? (23m) (23f)
How to get good with Filipino parents?
My gf (23f) and I (23m) have been dating for more than a year now. She's from the Phillipines and I'm from usa. Only two of her best friends know about me, and only recently. Nobody else knows about me, including family.
I'm going to be visiting her in the summer and we'll be staying in another city, so won't have to meet too many people that she knows but she has gone back and forth about introducing me to her family.
She's nervous because they're old school, strict conservative parents. They aren't tech savvy and wouldn't really understand an online relationship, or how we met, or why we're together. They're of the type that believe a guy has to go and court her first (I think chores or housework, and helping the girl/family, not sure what other stuff she mentioned that is usual for the culture), then once he's good with the family, they can date. I think that's how she said it was, I don't really remember haha. So because of all this, she's unsure of how they'd treat me or if they'd accept me and our relationship.
She does want to introduce me and hopes that it will all go well, but she's very nervous and not confident with it yet.
So if there's anybody with experience coming from an American, or if there's any Filipinos with similar parents, do y'all have advice on what I can do?
I saw a comment on a tiktok that said: Take shots with father in law, take mothers advice, gift the little siblings, get parents approval and have a degree lol.