Parents meeting your partner for the first time...

[stackmonkey]

Due to unexpected circumstances, and to the surprise of all three people, my dad met a boyfriend of mine for the first time last night. They said 'hello' etc and then scarpered into separate rooms in the house out of nervous embarrassment.
Much the same happened this morning, as I don't think my dad was expecting my bf to be staying over.
For some reason I found this hilarious.

Anyone else have good/bad meetings with partner's parents?

[v8thunder]

I've always managed to avoid this situation by, er, not telling them!

Dunno why, it's just they're so interfering, overbearing and vehemently outdated at times I'd rather not sacrifice a relationship at an early stage and just keep them out of it.

Heartless, aren't I?

[jimothy]

I'd been dating a girl for a week and was sitting with her when my Dad phoned me. He asked what I'd been up to and I said I'd been spending some time with a girl who was 19, blonde and a student. His immediate response (loud enough for the girl to hear) was 'Yeah, and fks like a rabbit I bet'

It was certainly interesting when they finally met!

[vixpy1]

They never stick around for long enough to meet my parents!

[BliarOut]

I remember many years ago sneaking an ex into my parents house for the night. We both crept upstairs, each putting our feet down at the same time etc. I expected to be able to sneak her out early, but my stepmum caught us on the way out in the morning.

She just said "morning" and smiled. That was that... Apart from the obvious mentions now at family every together

[stackmonkey]

anonymous said:

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And even longer if you didn't do it in the same room!

[jimothy]

I had a friend whos parents complained they never got to meet his girlfriends.

It's cos he always deflated them and put them back in the box before his parents came round.





taxi for jim

[vixpy1]

Vixpy - control your hormones! (now do you see why I delete your posts... )

[judas]

I remember well my first unexpected introduction, when we were students, to Ace-T's mum, but that's not a story to be related here unless I fancy spending the night sleeping in the shed!

Let's just say it was something like

[BliarOut]

anonymous said:

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i thought that was your trick last night

[stackmonkey]

v8thunder said:

I've always managed to avoid this situation by, er, not telling them! Dunno why, it's just they're so interfering, overbearing and vehemently outdated at times I'd rather not sacrifice a relationship at an early stage and just keep them out of it. Heartless, aren't I?

Mine have known for about 4 years.

An official 'introduction' was going to be organised for between Xmas and New Year (as it's now 4 months it's considered 'serious')

[Ding]

I once met an apparition on my landing in the early hours of the morning. Without my glasses all I can tell your is she was female and had a streak of pink in her hair. My son just laughed when I mentioned this to him, she had gone before I got up in the morning. (Perhaps meeting your boyfriends mother in her nightie at 3am was a shocking thing!).

I did meet her again so she could not have been too traumatised, that time it was about 5pm and she had coffee with me and a normal conversation.

Of course that was about 10 girlfriends ago, cannot keep up, but most of them seem to be called Laura

Elizabeth

[FrenchTVR]

vixpy1 said:

They never stick around for long enough to meet my parents!

Not surprising if you keep handing out those Winged Horse of Chav-Tat things



>> Edited by FrenchTVR on Friday 10th December 16:32

[v8thunder]

stackmonkey said:

v8thunder said: I've always managed to avoid this situation by, er, not telling them! Dunno why, it's just they're so interfering, overbearing and vehemently outdated at times I'd rather not sacrifice a relationship at an early stage and just keep them out of it. Heartless, aren't I? Mine have known for about 4 years. An official 'introduction' was going to be organised for between Xmas and New Year (as it's now 4 months it's considered 'serious')

I like to give it about 4 months so I know it's concrete.

Problem is, my Mum likes to organise everything in everyones lives, but to '70s standards (plus a police-style interrogation to boot), and my Dad, great guy though he is, seems to be stuck in the '50s. (lets just say he wears grey cardigans, shirts and ties at weekends, smokes a pipe, thinks F1 cars should have front-engines and refers to my mates as 'pals' or 'chums')

Don't think anyone who hadn't decided they definately liked me would last much longer than an evening.

>> Edited by v8thunder on Friday 10th December 16:37

[chrisgr31]

My wife first met my parents after my mum phoned up as she needed a hand with her internet shopping from Tescos. My G/F of the time was staying over so I dragged her round. Oddly the Tescos shopping suddenly became very low priority and it is the one and only time by Mum has used Tesco.com!

The followng week my now wife decided I should met her parents. We were out on the Friday night, and my now wife had also had various hepatis jabs etc for her job as a midwife. After our night out wife is very ill. amd blames it on her jabs. Anyway we go to her parents for lunch. She decides that in view of being ill she'd best have dry toast and water. Parents and I tuck into a veritable feast. After lunch her mother offers us a cup of tea, and my wife accepts. Drinks her tea, and about 1 minute later retches and half the tea appears on dining room floor as wife runs to the loo, throwing up on the kitchen floor on route.

Then turns out her Mother can't handle sickness and runs into the garden. So its left to her Dad and I to clear up the mess. No wonder he called me a "godsend" in his wedding speech 14 months later!

[sirtophamhat]

v8thunder said:

I've always managed to avoid this situation by, er, not telling them! Dunno why, it's just they're so interfering, overbearing and vehemently outdated at times I'd rather not sacrifice a relationship at an early stage and just keep them out of it. Heartless, aren't I?

Not heartless at all. I'm the exact same, even my friends often don't know who I'm seeing. They just have a habit of telling all the wrong stories...

[Don]

My wife decided to introduce me to her parents one time after we had been out for the day by just "popping in".

She hadn't told them a thing. They had no preparation for the arrival of a new boyfriend, no warning at all.

Surprised doesn't really describe their reaction. They were ever so sweet though.

Then they really were amazed as we announced within a couple of months we wanted to get married.

From meeting her to be married took just slightly under a year.

Been married almost ten years now.

The parents-in-law aren't surprised any more. Bless'em.

[alfaman]

vixpy1 said:

They never stick around for long enough to meet my parents!

...... don't forget to hide the glass ornaments in a box when they come round - or are they locked in a "display" cabinet ?

[love machine]

Shit.....

I have a nasty one.

Picture this, 3rd year at Newcastle Uni. Decided to take the bird down to Whitby to go fossil hunting. (Found a big turtle skeleton!)

NB: Her parents are from Scarborough, Mine are in SE Cornwall.

So, as we we got stuck into the North Yorkshire Moors, we decided to pull in for a bit of slap and tickle. The van was hard to start afterwards and I thought "What the 's wrong with this?" so, going down a massive hill (in the middle of nowhere) the engine cut out, it went totally dead. Anyway, with my mechanical cunning and expert knowhow, I decided that it was ed and that we were stuck. So, being beyond skint, realising the remote localtion was probably going to result in a vandalised, burnt out van, I decided the prudent option was to remove all the identity, vin plates, number plates, etc and did this. Meanwhile stashed my surfboard over the hedge. As I jumped over the hedge, I instantly went up to my waist in mud, it was a bog!!!! So, we had no phone on board and so we walked miles through fields until we got to this house. I phoned home and explained to dad what I had done with the van. He agreed that if it was ed, it was best to leave it in the middle of nowhere. So, the second phone call was to the birds parents "Can you come and pick us up?"

Oh !

They were late and the reason was, her mum had been doing herself up to meet the new boyfriend. I wanted to run away and just die.

There I was, dressed in shitty old clothes to go dinosaur hunting, covered in mud and stagnant filth up to my waist, stinking like a smackheads arsehole, with a messy beard and looking like a proper junky!

IF I HAD KNOWN THE ING VAN WOULD HAVE BROKEN DOWN AND THIS HAD BEEN THE CONSEQUENCES, I WOULD HAVE WORN A SUIT.

They were very understanding. We are still together but her mum still regards me as a degenerate.

[Buffalo]

I have something ten times more scary this christmas. As i am (supposedly) going to Aus in the new year to study a masters, and my girlfriend (might ) be going with me, all three groups (my mum, her parents and "us") have thought that maybe the parents ought to meet up incase anything happens whilst out there...

Arrgghh! Can't think of anything worse/more stressful. Not least because my mother is bloody neurotic! and her dad has a wickedly dry sense of humour.. It would be slightly less bearable if my dad was still around as he'd get on fine with her dad (similar sense of humour).

When my dad was alive, he used to mark them as i brought them home, the ol' bastard! He was particularly impressed and overly bigheaded, at what a good job in bringing me up he had made, when my mother commented once that 5 different women had called for me in a week...