My galpals family and my family come from very, very different sorts of backgrounds her dad is stay at home and her mom is a manager for a factory, they're quiet and gossipy and have money (enough to go on long vacations)
My family is very traditional in the constantly working sense, I'm an apprentice boilermaker/heavy fabricator (means I work in full leather overalls on top of jeans in hot weather and weld on heavy mining equipment for 13 dollars an hour until I get my trade)
My life is busy and hard and this causes conflicts, my dad was a boilermaker after the army my step dad was in the army, my mom was a bartender after the airforce.
So all these values of hardwork and "manliness" have hence been funnelled into me by expectation. So me trying to get approval from her dad, being respectful all these things are very important to me.