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this is really funny, because there's a show here called "The Teacher" (A tanár), which evolves around a teacher very creative I know. his girfriend / finacée / anything is his colleague, and based on what you said about May's parents, the two of them are a bit similar
we don't know much about her father yet (it's a currently ongoing show), but we do know that she and her mother have a bad relationship since her mother tries to control her life (not in the "you're a dumbass so let me do everything instead of you" kind, she just wants to make lots of decisions instead of her daughter, to help her)
it's also really funny because even though the main character doesn't look like Rayan at all, and their personalities are quite different as well, there are just moments when he reminds me of Rayan hahahhh
it's interesting to see all this stuff about May. does he father know / see / do anything about her bad relationship with her mother? do her parents have a bad relationship as well? (I'm sorry, but I got curious ahahahhh)
Nah, it’s okay kkkkk you guys can 100% be curious about it, I’m totally fine by that, don’t apologize. Most of it I wrote on personal notes that I never share, because I simply don’t think ppl are interested, but if you guys are, I’m totally okay in answering questions/asks about it.
Her mom and her father actually have a really good marriage, they’re like, partners in business, pleasure and all, and that made both very selfish and eager to keep a certain style of life that unfortunately didn’t work with a baby to carry around all the time. That’s why they left May to be raised in France with her Grandparents.
But her father does take May’s side when the fights scale enough to drag him into it. However, May’s mother is the type that truly believes that she wants only the best for her daughter’s life (just as hypocritical as that it sounds) and she justifies her behavior to everybody else through this argument, that she’s only trying to be part of her daughter’s life and prevent her from committing mistakes.
So May’s father finds difficult to make a point and help change her behavior, but more often than not, he’s the one that actually supports and side with May the most from the two of them. However, it’s not like May and her father are super close, because they aren’t. The decision of leaving May and put such distance into their relationship as her parents it’s so much as his as her mother’s.
But they, as a couple, works well together because both looks younger, successful and well-traveled, sophisticated even. So they have a lot in common and they have a partnership that has nothing to do with anything related to their personal differences with May (as cold hearted as it sounds).
A good example of that is, when they actually met Rayan, her mother found the age gap unacceptable and the fact that he’s just a university professor equally bad, not what she wanted for her daughter.
Meanwhile, May’s father actually accepted Rayan and he actually meets with them, when he’s in town to go out and have dinners, or even invite them both to an art exposition and such.
The only important thing for him is that May is sure about what choices and that she really loves Rayan - he also watched them for a while to be sure. Also, he doesn’t think that he has any right to tell his adult daughter who she should date or not kkkkkk which is in a sense so much better than what her mother does.
The one that had the whole “if you hurt my daughter ever I will chop down your legs” was actually May’s grandfather that actually LOVES Rayan kkkkkkk he adores Rayan to absurd levels, call him son, text him and all. May’s grandma also absolutely adores Rayan.
They got introduced to Rayan when he was still May’s teacher and at first, they did get their own reservations and it was a tense conversation first, but they got pass it with time and learning more about him. Nowadays Rayan is part of the family and is like a second son for them.