Meet the parents - How scary is that ?

I didn't meet my husband's parents until we were engaged. I was the most horrible experience of my life and I didn't like them from the moment I set eyes on them. They told us there and then that our marriage wouldn't work out because we both came from different backgrounds. What a thing to say to somebody on a first meeting!! I was horrified. Now after 38 years of marriage, I am glad to say they were wrong.

This is one thing I haved learned. It is actually you going to check out the parents. They can tell you alot about your future mate. I would be more concerned now than scared, since my hubby's parents sure would concern me. Too late for me. Have to say though we have made it however, those parents were a great indicator of his actions and reactions. Go interview them. Keep your eyes open and see what they show you are about to deal with on a day to day basis! Good luck!!

it is not scray at all!...it's fun and very adventurous!...i felt abit nervous but that wasnt long!...

I met my husband's mom, aunt, sister, brother and niece two nights before our wedding when they arrived from the US (we're in Canada). It was nervewracking but they are lovely people. I had IM'd and emailed with his mom for quite a long time before that and also emailed back and forth with his aunt and his sister. At least I didn't feel like I knew nothing of them. I've yet to meet his father in person (his parents divorced when he was like 7 or something). His father said he couldn't get the time off to come up for the wedding and that it was too expensive for him. It was a shame because I naturally would have liked to have had the opportunity to meet him and his wife before we got married ... but we hope to visit them one of these summers! :)

Well I didn't meet them for a year after we started living together, - not because he was ashamed of me (LOL!), but because we are in the UK, and they are in Argentina, which means it is rather too far to go for a weekend!! I was a little nervous, because I thought they wouldn't approve of me - not local, not Argentine, not Catholic, and also divorced (not a good combination!), - oh, and did I mention they don't speak a word of English!? But actually we got on fine. His Father has passed away now, and his Mother lives with his sister in Buenos Aires, and we still visit regularly.

My first meeting wasn't scary at all...I hit it off no problem with his both of them. I think my husband gets more anxiety than me about his own parents!

My inlaws have treated me like a daughter from the first minute I met them. They are very easygoing and likeable people who seem to put everyone at ease immediately. I was just lucky I guess.

it is difficult that they come from me, I never see them, but they only put under stress me see them I from fastidio, I am sick and no one has never come to find me at the hospital, in every year, now divorced, they ask my mother on the telephone, they do not neither phone to me. Better do not see them.

You poor baby I know its a very scary thing but once you get passed the first day it gets easier. I was also scared and if you think about it theres really no reason to be.LOL Im sure they they like you just fine.

I meet my girlfriend's dad all the time..only he doesn't know that I'm dating his daughter..

I actually met my hubby's mom long before we were a couple. We were friends first so ti was no big deal to me. When we didi officially start going out she told my hubby that he needed to break up with me because I was not feminine enough for him. Whatever. I don't really remember when I first met my hubby's dad. His aprent were divorced and his dad lived in different city. I know that i did't really like him as he was way too prejudiced for me, so I didn't give a rats a$$ if he liked me or not. I still don't care if his mom likes me, and over the years she has tried to get us to break up. SHe even went so far as to set my hubby up onl a blind date while he and I were living together. And that is actaully one of the minor things she has done. My hubby and I have been togehter now for over 13 years, so what either of our parents thought and think doesn't really matter to us. My parents, when I frist started dating my hubby told me to stay away from him as he was bad news, but over the years they have learned to love him, and not so long ago my mom was introducing my husband to work people and she introduced him as her son. He was so proud of that. They really love him now. We all just sort of put up with his mom.

Mine was even scarier in that I didn't get to meet them until a week before our wedding. They lived clear acroos the country in Canada from us and my wife and I had been dating for less than a year when we got married. I had spoken to the phone a bunch of times but it is still different when you have to meet face to face.

Well i met the parents a while before he asked me out, when we were still at the friend stage so it wasnt scary. Its not scary to meet a friends parents and after we started going out i was already quite close to his parents so it was cool.