I've found that the people who are so critical of vegetarianism lack understanding of it and therefore can't respect it. Also, where are the in-laws from? My BF's friends are small-town, meat and potatos Nebraskans thru and thru and they tease me constantly (and are sometimes downright mean) because of their assumptions of my upbringing and what I eat. I've recently discovered that they just had no idea how it affected me. I had had enough of being teased about being a "gay, birkenstock wearing, veggie burrito-eating" hippy from Colorado that I made a comment about Nebraska. It stopped them in their tracks. They truly had no idea. And i'm not gay, I wear Teva's, not Birkenstocks, and I like tacos, not burritos. So it shows you how much knowledge went behind their comments.
And no offense to Nebraskans. As a whole I've been overwhelmed by the kinrdness of the people there. I just had no idea how much they dislike Coloradans
I don't necessarily reccommend insulting your in-laws, but my point is that
I had no idea that
they had no idea.
I do understand how frustrating it is and this topic has been on my mind today because of the thread going in the support forum. I don't know what to tell you except not to take personally what others choose to think.
I know. A no good answer, but it's all I have at the moment...