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Thanks! Thanks for all the helpful advice everyone. It makes me feel better that I'm not overreacting, though I hope that my SO will also take this advice to heart and talk to his family directly.

My SO allows his parents to say the most horrible and offensive things both because he doesn't hear it and because they're his parents. While him not standing up to them is the real problem, my chief concern is that I'm the one over-reacting. Do hearing people usually act so rude?

I'm new to the boards and joined specifically to ask this question. I am dating a man with profound hearing loss who is almost completely deaf. In some situations, he can "hear" by hearing lips and very often we will rely on a combination of sign and spoken words to communicate. Whenever we...