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In this ESSENCE Now segment, our Kitchen Table Talk panelists discuss the do's and don'ts for bringing a new girlfriend or boyfriend to Thanksgiving dinner.
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00:00What about bringing a boo though like what is there ever an appropriate time around Thanksgiving to bring a boo or do you bring it on a do you bring your boo on a not a new boo not a new boo as a boo who was brought.
00:16I think we were involved like a few months but his parents saw they met me and they knew that Thanksgiving and I was coming and so I think our first encounter and I called his mother and I told him I told her that you know I really love Thanksgiving so I would love to come and I'd love to help her cook.
00:40Okay. So I wasn't that I was coming to just show because I really did she let you help she did I am in cook Thanksgiving dinner I'm because it really is the only time that I enjoy cooking but I don't enjoy cooking on Mondays and Tuesdays.
00:56I get it. So it was like I said you know if you don't mind I'd love to help cook and I think by the time I got there I brought all the groceries that I was going to need to make something and she was like okay.
01:05Well so you came bearing gifts.
01:07I came bearing gifts and she was like well she literally just next I know she was sitting down and I was like oh fine.
01:12Now how did your mama and daddy feel that you weren't spending Thanksgiving with them?
01:15Right.
01:16My parents live in Ghana and they lived in Ghana for a long time so that's part of why Thanksgiving became my thing because it was the only time for me was always Friendsgiving so it wasn't really my family it was mostly all of my friends who would be like oh I'm not going to visit my mom and we would just convene at my home and then do that.
01:32So that's why.
01:33Damien have you ever bought a home a boo for Thanksgiving?
01:35Yeah I did.
01:36How'd that work out for me?
01:37How'd that go?
01:38It was a disaster.
01:39It wasn't though it wasn't a disaster.
01:40We still together this thing.
01:41Tell us what happened.
01:42Oh you still together perfect.
01:43Yeah but it was uh see the thing is I think that might have been the first time she was really there.
01:47I'm not particularly sure but there was a lot of extended family and it became a bit of a gauntlet.
01:54It became a bit of an interrogation.
01:55Well it's gotta be an interrogation.
01:57And I wasn't all the way I wasn't jumping in front of the firing squad.
02:02You just let her catch it?
02:03I mean I didn't let her catch it.
02:04I felt like I wanted to hear the information.
02:06You know what I mean?
02:07I was in on it.
02:08Oh my god you turned on her.
02:10I didn't turn on her I was a neutral party.
02:13This is my family still.
02:15We don't know what's you know.
02:16We don't want you to turn on them.
02:17Right you know what I mean?
02:18Like this is still.
02:19I can't tell her what she was walking into.
02:20Huh?
02:21You let her know what she was walking into.
02:22I definitely told her my family's dynamic.
02:25You know what I mean?
02:26Not dynamic.
02:27Colorful individuals.
02:28Not aggressive.
02:29How did she deal with that though?
02:30I mean she handled the business.
02:31It was a problem.
02:32She was upset.
02:33We found that in the car.
02:34Listen I didn't like that many questions coming my way about you know such and such.
02:39I said alright I feel that.
02:40And it took a while for us to all the way smooth it out.
02:43Right.
02:44But now it's good.
02:45She's going to Thanksgiving again.
02:46Yeah she's going to Thanksgiving again.
02:47So look at that.
02:48Oh she's still on the Thanksgiving.
02:49So look at that worked out.
02:50Please survive.
02:51BTSD.
02:52Yeah.
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