UPDATE: Me (ex-Muslim, F 24) telling my conservative religious parents about my non-Muslim boyfriend.

TL;DR - I told my parents that I am in a relationship and that I don't believe I'm doing anything wrong. They responded with emotional blackmail, insults and appear to have cut me off. Nonetheless, I am relieved that I no longer have to tiptoe around them or be secretive about an important part of my life.
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Link to previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/relationshi...ents_about_my/
Thank you to everyone who gave me advice on the last post. I just wanted to update you. I called my parents the weekend before last and told them I was in a relationship with a very good man who happens not to be Muslim. As you can imagine, it wasn't taken well.
Initially, my mother responded by trying to ascertain whether our relationship had become sexual ("So do you go to his house?"), then asking intrusive questions about my partner's family background ("Are his parents together? Are they divorced?") ... And then trying to pressure me into marriage immediately ("we'll even accept the fact that he's not Muslim if you just get married... Is he really serious about you or is he just using you to pass the time?") I expressed the fact that marriage would need to be a decision my partner and I made together as a couple, rather than something we succumbed to because of cultural pressure (we've only been together five months). I added that we would probably live together in the future before we got married. At this point, my mother began crying, telling me nobody in her life had ever hurt her as much as I'd hurt her and that it obviously made no difference to me whether she lived or died.
My father then interjected calling me a shameless, indecent woman with no morals, told me I must be having a psychological breakdown if I thought I had any right to do what I was doing, said "you don't care if your parents have **** on their faces in front of the community; you don't care if people spit on your family out of shame" and then proceeded to go on a very long rant full of emotional blackmail which ended with: "What kind of daughter are you to us?" He then hung up the phone. Well... At least it's done.
We haven't spoken since. Today is my birthday and neither my mother, father nor brother have contacted me.
I felt quite numb immediately following the conversation, and my appetite seems to have reduced over the past couple of weeks so I do think I'm undergoing some kind of grieving process. However, it's a relief to have gotten the "confession" off my chest, and at least now I can look forward to a brighter future with my partner in which I am no longer hiding my relationship from my parents or having to be secretive about it. My boyfriend is the loveliest, most supportive person on earth and I really am lucky to have him.


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