Can the parents of a friend get me in legal trouble for emailing their son if he wants to talk to me too?
I am friends with this guy whose parents say that we should not be friends. We are still technically minors, he is Muslim, and his family tells me that his religion prevents him from dating until he is 21. The only thing is, I don’t want to date him. We are really close and awesome friends, but we have to hide our friendship by only talking in email form. They have found out several times that we have been talking (first on the phone, then via text) but they don’t know about the emailing. Sometimes there will be emails a week or two apart and I get nervous that if I email him, his parents will find out about it and get me in legal trouble. He is totally worth fighting for if it is just with his family, but I don’t want any trouble with the law- I have my whole future ahead of me. There have been 3 different times where his mom and sister seriously told me not to contact him or else they would call the police on me. Can they seriously get me in trouble if he contacts me too?
Wow- thanks to all of the people who already answered- the advice so far has been great- I thought that it might help to be a bit more specific by adding that they told me not to contact him in ANY form, not just via phone… my parents think that our friendship is great and they are only worried that his family could get me into trouble. His family is very unreasonable (from all that I know and what he has told me), and they definitely would not be persuaded by any meeting with either me or my parents. They probably wouldn’t even hear that part of the proposal because they’d be too angry to know that we have been talking even after they told us not to. Thanks again!
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