writing topic for tuesday

I have five older cousins on my father's side and a stepsister who is only a few months older than me. All are married or have already been married. My stepsister was the most recent one to get married, just five months ago. We all thought that I would've been the next to marry instead of her, based on her personality and past "relationships." Well, as one can easily tell, she married before I did, and quite frankly, at every wedding that I've been to in in the past three years I've been jealous. Especially when my sister ( as I consider her) got married. I was not able to go to the wedding, since she had a small ceremony in Texas, nine hours away from Memphis, where her now husband was stationed for training in the Air Force. I had prom that previous night and told her that if she wanted me at her wedding, to have it some other weekend, since prom was planned a long time before her wedding was. Needless to say, I was not able to go to her wedding.

Well, now, it's my turn. I just got engaged this past Sunday to a wonderful guy. He's absolutely great! My mom and most of my family think he's pretty cool, but my dad and his father aren't too happy about his ethnic background. He's half Mexican, half white. My dad and his father are very against interracial marriages, so you do the math. Which, i find kind of funny considering the fact that my mother is the one that is not wanting me to get married until after college. My mother is very controlling and tries to control most parts of my life,so she doesn't want me to take any risks and follow my heart right now and get married, like he and i really to do. We know we don't really have the money to do so, and this is fine. We weren't planning to get married right away, anyways, but she says that we cant until after college. My sister said that we should wait til at least after we get enough money, and then to "feel free to do as [we] please." Well, if we get enough money to do so before college is over, we will. My mother cannot control me no matter how hard she tries. She holds the fact that she still pays for some of my college stuff that my scholarship doesn't cover over me as leverage. Well, we will do what we must to make sure that we can get by and do what we want to do and what we feel is right.