What happened when your SO first met your parents/family?

Oh man, this is a story.

It was Mother's Day, 2000.
He was sweet, he came over with 2 long stemmed roses....one for me, and one for my Mom!

I met him at the front door, and we walked into the backyard (where everyone was just lounging) - my DAD is reclined in an adirondack chair, with his feet up and crossed at the ankles on the marble table...wearing a straw hat....with a cigar in one hand, and a glass of wine and peaches in the other....WHILE LISTENING TO MOB HITS on the outdoor speakers.

I swear, Rich's knees started shaking.

Then comes the best part:
Dad looks him up and down, and goes, "...so YOU must be Rich....[insert ridiculously intimidating staredown here]"

Rich started stuttering, but eventually reached out his hand to shake.

I seriously DIED. Poor Rich. We were only 17.

THEN the conversation turned to when Dad "had to" threaten my sister's old BF with the "bat he keeps under his bed". OMG.

I figured if Rich stayed around after THAT incident, he was a keeper.

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ill let ya know whenever he does!

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Mike had really long hair. My Uncle said somthing like "I hope you have more sense then that" to me


He introduced me to his family as "christine" I was all who the heck is Christine

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omg, he got your NAME wrong?!?!? hahahhah

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Posted by june262004

He introduced me to his family as "christine" I was all who the heck is Christine

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jeeeeeez i can't even remember that far back....

went well .....
my mom loved him immediately

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DH met the rest of my family before he met my mom.(she was sick) Everyone liked him right away and my great uncle couldn't stop talking about his strong handshake.

So by the time my mom met him she already knew that he was a great guy,

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My father who hated my other boyfriends and wouldn't even acknowledge they existed, shocked me and shook his hand and they proceeded to have a conversation that lasted over 2 hours and we missed the movie we were supposed to go see. That's why I married him!

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Ummm...it didn't go to well. My parents and brother/SIL came to NJ and we all went out for dinner. (My brother is an attorney). Anyway...DH was real quiet during dinner...but somehow something came up regarding the law and DH put his $.02 in. Well...him and my brother got into a little debate. It was uncomfortable.

After we got home and my parents left, DH was like...they hate me. They didn't even ask me any questions. I told him before we went out, that my family is not going to ask him a million questions about himself...there will be conversation, just jump in that's how they will get to know you.

Needless to say...they warmed up to him over time...and my mother gave him a birthday card one year that said "to my favorite son-in-law" and DH now refers to himself as that. However...he is the only son-in-law she has...at least until my sister gets married this summer. He keeps telling my mom that he better not lose his favorite status when there is competition

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I went to Dublin for Christmas and my DH decided to come over for New Year's. He had never met my parents before, so when he arrived in at 5:30 a.m., he went to bed for a couple of hours to get over his jet-lag. When my parents got up that morning they discovered that our dog had an "upset stomach" all over our kitchen and they were still cleaning up when my DH came down. He was expecting a big Irish cooked breakfast, but he quickly lost his appetite. Having to explain what happened certainly broke the ice with everyone.

My DH also tells everyone how my mother wouldn't leave us alone together the whole time we were visiting. She had us sleeping at opposite ends of the house and actually turned off the TV one night saying "time for bed, everyone"

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DH parked his car, set the emergency brake. We got out with the cake he insisted we bring. The car rolled down & hit our neighbor's mailbox. We both tried to stop it. It just missed the neighbor's car by a foot. DH tried to pay for the neighbor's new mailbox, but he refused. My parents adored him. They had been previously prepped to not have a choice in the matter. The cake, while smashed, was still good.

DH hadn't brought a girl home in 2 years after dating "the one" who everyone thought he was going to marry. When I met his parents, his mother rushed around trying to make everything perfect (had the "goldware" out & everything). We sat down for dinner. His stepfather immediately brings up how woman shoud be in the home & have no business working. I said "I fully agree. We should be sitting on the couch, eating bon-bons while the men work their fingers to the bone." He looked at DH & said "Where did you find this one? She's good!"

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You want to talk about awkward DH met my family at my Grandmother's wake. We had been seeing each other for only a month and at the same time going through a little rough time getting my 90 year old grandmother settled into the nursing home. We all took care of her at home until it became too much where she was always in the hospital and the doctor said she needed to be in a nursing home. She had alzheimers. So I told DH about the situation with my Grandmother and he said he wanted to meet her anyways. So I said let's wait till next week cuz we are in the process of putting her into a home right now and that my family was having a hard time doing it because they felt bad, but she ended up dying within that week that we put her into the home...

Till this day when I think about it I still feel bad that I should have brought DH to see her because he was so sweet enough to want to meet her even in the condition that she was in. So he really wanted to be there for me during the wake and funeral and I just couldn't say no to that, So the day before my Grandmother's wake I had to tell my mom that I was bringing someone I was seeing to the wake. I gotta say my family was not upset and were very nice to him. My mom wasn't very talkative at that moment, which is understandable but the following week when he came to our house for dinner she fell in love with him...

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he came to a big party we were having for my Mom beating cancer

there were over 100 people there- I went to introduce him to my Dad- and he went to shake hasnd with the wrong guy- it was so funny

he was a big hit anyway

my family loves him

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My dad said something along the lines of....I have a gun and the government trained me how to use it.

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Posted by DebG

My dad said something along the lines of....I have a gun and the government trained me how to use it.

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When I was in college, Lady, our dachshound, was dying, she had kidney failure.

My DH (who I didn't meet yet...I was in Virginia, and he was here in NY), was my parent's veterinarian.
MY DH saved Lady's life; so years later, when I met my DH and began dating him...my parents gave their blessings...they adore him!

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My parents did not like kevin right away, long story. They love him now because they know how well he treats me. It was funny, on my wedding video that my BIL was taping, my dad said "congratulations guys, I love you both. Kevin, be good to by daughter or I will ***** kill you....nice dad !!!

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My mom loved him, and said he looks exactly like her high school boyfriend.

My father was not as welcoming...He lives in a large house he gets with his job, and went to give DH a tour of the grounds...They ran into an employee and Dad introduced DH as "a visitor to the home." Dad still makes comments about how he wished I had married my college boyfriend who is a neurosurgeon. Money to him is more important than happiness.

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after my car accident, and dh's mom passing away, (the same day).....he showed up at the emergency room where i was being treated....my mom told me "why can't you meet someone like him".....
I didn't have the guts to tell her that i was already in love with him, for fear that it wouldn't work out...
a few weeks later, she cried when i told her we were dating...

i think she loves him more than she loves me!!

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My parents first met FH when we went to the Jr. prom. I had bought tickets to the prom intending to go with my then boyfriend, then I broke up with my boyfriend and I really wanted to go with FH (we were friends and kind of fell for each other while I was dating someone else), but I was shy, and I didn't want to be too forward, or to make him feel bad, so I asked my best guy friend first. My best friend would be out of town, so I asked FH. Hed joked with me for years about how he was my 3rd choice...haha. But anyway, we had a blast at the prom..ph wait this is about parents... Um..his parnts brought him over to my house and we took pics and my parents drove us to the prom. MY parents liked him I think, but they thought his parents were weird (they are). The first time I met his parents was 5 months earlier, when i went to his house for a party, and I guess we didn't really know we liked each other, or we didn't act on it cause I had just broken up with a really long term bf, and FH didn't want to be rebound..then we fell in love while I was dating recound guy. But anyway, after that party, his parents referred to me to him as "the one you like" because of the way we acted toward one anohter.

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Posted by MrsERod

i think she loves him more than she loves me!!

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Dh came over for my b-day dinner that I cooked. I like to cook it's cool.

So he's sitting next to me dad and we are having a conversation and DH starts to whistle! I guess nervous response and a little OCD..I had to step on his foot under the table to get him to stop..he immediately stopped and apologized and felt awful, but he ended up doing it again! Really nervous really OCD!

They still thought he was cute and he was wearing a colonge that my mother loved!

They didn't end up really liking him that much though..but toward the time we were really serious and got engaged they liked him very much.

They love him like a son now.