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Meeting the parents
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Ok so kinda random, just was really weird for me this weekend. Me and my fella have bene together about 5 weeks now, neither of us had met each others parents or anything. Anyways just happened that this weekend both his parents were down and my mum was down to see us. We ended up both taking them to the same pub on Saturday night so the parents met at the same time as we met each others parents. In the past my mum's never met any of my exes parents even when I was engaged to Andy, let alone after only 5 weeks of being with someone.
So anyways to make a point to this thread, what sort of stage of a relationship do you usually decide parents should meet unless anything random happens like to me this weekend.
So anyways to make a point to this thread, what sort of stage of a relationship do you usually decide parents should meet unless anything random happens like to me this weekend.
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i dont think its too much to worry about, well as long as they get on!
our two lots of parents live 120 miles apart, so they've only met twice. first time was about 9 months into the relationship, and the second was a couple of weeks ago.
Oh and weve been together almost two months
Both our parents met 3 months later which was kinda freaky cuz i was like 'oh god this means we're really serious!' But they all got on well so i was rather pleased!
the last 2 occasions have been awfull - had a one night stand with a girl in a hotel, afterwards, walking here down to reception to get her key so she didnt wake her parents, we bumped into her dad on the stairs while we was laughing bout what just went on, her dad was furious!!
and more recently i nearly met this girls mum. Id known the girl for ages but only as friends, she invited me back one night, went into the kitchen to get a drink, while she went upstairs, moments later i could her a voice shouting "who is the boy in my house, waking me up, get him out now" i was quickly out of there before she came down
i hate meeting girls parents now, i think im going to avoid girls that still live at home!
He met my parents a few weeks before that.
His dad lives in Nuneaton with his girlfriend so we only really see him when we go out for meals/go and visit etc and he lives with his step-mum a couple of villages away from me so i kinda met her pretty quick just from going round his house and that.
Poor GWST though. When she first met my extended family, she had to suffer my grandma singing Sex Bomb to her boyfriend on a karaoke. Bit o'class.
My dad and my bf's dad know of each other via a business connection (his dad's company does contract work for my dad's) and they met face to face when my dad went to his dad's office for a business meeting. As his mum is the company secretary, he met her at the same time.
My mum and his dad met last xmas because my mum works in a jewellers and his dad has gone in to get his mum's present - which my mum sold to him and got all the commission!
Just the two mum's to go now... :nervous:
He met my dad because we went to my friends house, his mate used to live up the road from my mate lol. who both lived quite far and my dad gave us a lift home, with him only living up the road, he got one with us lol
I, on the other hand, went all shy and didn't meet his Mum for 10 months, and his Dad for 12 (his Dad lives abroad) - they obviously loved me though, so it was OK.