Grandmother Interview Research Paper

Love is often times portrayed as a meticulously planned, perfect connection that everyone deserves to find in the end. However, this is not always the case for cynics such as the people who raised me. I had the chance to interview my grandmother and grandfather who have had plenty of experience with being in a romantic relationship as they have been married for 52 years and counting. Though my grandparents are quite open people, they are only open on their own terms, so I walked into this interview quite blindly.
My first question was a very obvious one: How, where, and when did they meet? My grandmother smiled a bit at this and explained that she was a freshman in college and waitressing at a cafe called “Canto Two” when she met my grandfather.

de a few other stops before he came to the coffee shop.” My grandfather laughed at the memory of smelling her to get her attention, but he was honest and said that he could not quite remember his first impression of her other than that he thought she was beautiful because my

In fact, it was not something my grandfather had wanted in the beginning for reasons that were not explained to me. These feelings were greatly echoed by my heavily catholic great-grandparents on my grandmother’s side who were irked by the age difference and the fact that my grandmother was living with my grandfather before they were married. I was a bit shocked at how blunt my grandfather was, but I cannot imagine that it was easy to be with a girl who did not have her family’s support and my grandmother seemed to understand as well, so I did not ask him to elaborate. Before they were married, my grandfather was a heavy drinker, but as he got older, the relationship helped him lose that habit and become relatively more mellow. He has always been a very fun person and he may come off somewhat cold in his responses, but from what I understand, it seems as if he was very rambunctious as a young adult and most likely did not want to recall his actions or thoughts. My grandmother said that she learned to be more patient and insightful as she became part of a team with my grandfather. Both of these traits helped her while she raised my father and my two uncles, and later, they helped her look after me as well. Interestingly enough, my grandfather proposed to my grandmother in a place that he knew she hated. She has never done well in the heat, so my grandfather took her for a walk on the