*Exasperated sigh*
Okay, I've been having problems, and I was hoping someone here could give me some advice.
I started wearing a kilt about two years ago, when I stumbled upon a local Highland games and was informed that my surname, Henderson, is Scottish. From that point on I was hooked. If it was Scottish, even Celtic, I was all over it. I got a kilt, even made a couple. I was looking into bagpipe lessons. I was listening to tons of celtic-themed music. I was playing the Heavy Athletics. I was a fanatic.
My mom though, didn't take too kindly to it. While she was all for studying and appreciating my heritage, I guess you might say I was getting annoying. As a result, I gave my mom a slightly negative outlook on the Scottish culture.
I've mellowed out over the past year, but meanwhile my dad's taken to our culture with even more fervor than I did. In fact, it's to the point where it's almost the only thing he'll talk about, much to my mom's grief. Pretty soon after he started getting into it, they started bickering. And over the year up to this point in time, it's been getting progressively worse; to the point where they mostly just argue anymore. And that's not to say my dad's not to blame either; they both make their fair share of bad gestures. I try to create a median between the two by bringing up the fact that there's Norwegian blood on my dad's side, as well as my mom's. (She's half german, half norwegian.) You know, give them a common ground to stand on, culturally speaking? Doesn't work.
Naturally, it's upsetting to see them like this, especially considering that for my entire life before donning the kilt, (About 18, 19 years I think?) they probably only argued once or twice. Now it's almost a daily basis, and I'm getting sick of it. So sick that I'm almost ready to just toss my kilts in the trash and give it all up.
I usually don't like talking about this kind of thing to people outside the family, but I was hoping that, seeing as how we're all gun-ho kilt wearers, someone could give me some advice?