Recently my BF has been hinting nonstop about proposing to me when I go back to college in the Fall and it has got me thinking about how I am going to tell my parents. I am 18 right now (though my birthday is in October so I may be 19) and we have been in a relationship for 3 1/2 years. A couple of months ago my best friend got engaged to her long time boyfriend and her mom was so upset about the whole thing. That got my family talking about how they wished that I would wait another 2 years til we got engaged and that they may not be happy for us. And this is my mom, my grandmom who lives with us, my dad (though it seems like he was just agreeing with my mom) and my 2 great great aunts who I have tried all my life to make as happy as possible. I know its coming but I have no idea how I can break the news to them. His parents will be crazy happy for us and so will his whole family but I'm worried about how my family will react. They're not "you're happy so we're happy for you" people. Any suggestions on how I can break the news to them when it happens?