Thursday, 05 March 2009
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Meeting the Parents - My Horror Stories
The other night, my boyfriend and I were watching Meet the Parents. I couldn't help but giggle with him at the ridiculous scenarios Ben Stiller's character kept finding himself in. I mean, really? All that happened while meeting the parents? I understand it's Hollywood, fiction and comical...but I can't help but smirk at the movie knowing I didn't have the best experiences meeting my boyfriend's parents, either. I met his mom and dad each on two separate, mortifying occasions. I'll begin with his mother, but first, I must give you a little background information. I'm a 21 year old midwestern girl who lives only a few hours from the Canadian border. I was raised in an extremely conservative home in an extremely conservative small town where hard work and respect for others are, well, respectable. After my high school graduation, I moved an hour away to a local community college, where I met my current boyfriend. He also attends the community college but still lives with his mom and dad.
So here's how I met the mother.
My boyfriend and I met at a party and hit it off really well, so he asked me over to his house a few weeks later to watch a movie. While watching the movie, we fell asleep in his bed until 7:00 in the morning. We both had class at 8:00. The door that leads outside is right by his kitchen, where his mother was unloading the dishwasher, ready to greet her son with a sunny, heartfelt "good morning!" That heartfelt "good morning" quickly turned into a frown, a raised eyebrow, and the most intimidating glare a woman could shoot towards another woman. I felt the size of a walnut. No, the size of a cashew...and I felt like a turd. A big fat, giant, stinky turd. I felt as worthless as gum stuck to the bottom of a shoe.
I knew instantly what I had done. I had invaded her turf and violated her "innocent" son. I was a random slut (excuse me for the lack of a better term) who felt welcome to crash at my convenience under her conservative, holy home. After this glare, my boyfriend introduced me. I didn't exactly find this necessary. It just made the situation 100 times more awkward than had he just kept his mouth shut. I'm sure she could've cared less who I was at the time and just wanted me out of her home. She was polite enough, however, to acknowledge me with a sarcastic "hi." *gulp* Super.
How I met the father:
I had seen his dad before but had not had the chance to be introduced to him. He works nights, so he is usually at work when I am over. My boyfriend and I had been dating for a little over a month when I decided to visit my parents for a weekend (they live an hour away). That Sunday night, driving back from my parents' home and eager to hang out with my boyfriend, I failed to take the precautionary measures necessary to ensure my safety while driving through the biggest blizzard of the season. I wasn't being careful, and long story short, the blizzard sucked my car right into the ditch - a 3 foot deep snow drift. I was stuck.
Not being able to get a hold of my parents for some reason, I decided to call my boyfriend to come rescue me. Oh my knight in shining armor! When he arrived, he was with his father. Did I mention that his father is 6'4" with the broadest shoulders the world has ever seen? I know I'm exaggerating, but he is quite the intimidating fellow. I couldn't help but wonder what was running through this man's mind:
How did she end up in the ditch? How is it possible for her to cross two lanes and not be able to stop her car from hitting the ditch? What kind of bimbo is my son dating? She doesn't even have snow boots in the middle of a raging blizzard? Where are her parents? Why am I stuck doing this?
Needless to say, I'm still afraid of his father. He doesn't talk to me and rarely acknowledges my presence, unless he says something like "how have the roads been treating you?" His mother, on the other hand, has learned that I'm not such a horrible girl after all. I like to think that she actually might like me. My boyfriend and I love to laugh about these stories now that everything has settled down. Now if I can just convince that dang father that I do have a few noodles in the ol' noggin, I'll be all set!
I know I am not the only one who has scarring "meet the parents" incidents. Has anything like this ever happened to you?
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Wow.. nothing like that.
But my first (and only so far) dinner with his mom made me feel like a murderer in an interrogation room though. Ughhh...
I know how that can be! I once didn't meet a guys mom until she walked in on us having an intense make out session. It's hard proving to mommy that you're not just some mindless bimbo after she's seen you somewhat unclothed.
I had known my current SO's family for a few years... so apart from the fact that me and all his brothers act like 12 year olds when we're together, I think I lack embarrassing moments with the fam.
hahaha. I totally know what you mean about that awkward feeling when you met his mom.. I'd fallen asleep at my boyfriend's house on New Year's Eve..in the basement on the couch with him. When we woke up, his Entire family was awake upstairs, and I Had to pee like None other. He was still sleeping, and I had no other choices but to slip upstairs or wake him up. I figured I'd sneak up, but when I got to the top of the stairs, I came face to face with his mom who was looking for him because he wasn't in his bed last night..
AWKWARD.
I'm the 'skank' that slept in your basement with your precious son, and you have no idea who I am.... ''Hi''.
My bf still hasn't formally introduced me to either of his parents and we've been together 7 months. They're divorced. They live in New York while we live in California, him in Santa Barbara, and me in San Diego. What sucks is when he and I are seeing each other for the weekend, it never crossed his mind to call either one up and introduce me to them. I had to go tell him to give me his mother's address so I can send her a card formally introducing myself and greeting her a Happy Valentines Day. It still hurts he didn't think to do call either one up.
Oh wow...both very awkward situations. I never had that happen to me. Luckily, parents generally like me because they consider me a good influence on their children.
i was the "girl who always came over to borrow the printer" for OVER A YEAR, before i was informally introduced as the girlfriend,
even after 2 years, his dad still hates me and barely notices or bothers to acknowledge my presence.
talk about horror potential parents in law!
I have never gotten along with ANY of my BF's mothers. My last BF,,,, I was waiting to meet his mom only she was late in returning so while conversing we went into the room where the only computer is (we were looking up something online) he was sitting in the only chair, I was on the bed, he turned around and we were looking at one of his watches (he has the coolest watches) and his mom passed the room. From her vantage point it looked like we were kissing...she has never recovered from that....her 37 yo PURE son was kissing ME (the slut) in his room. 2 kids later she still hasn't recovered...and she is sure his kids aren't his. LOL
Well, there was this guy... We weren't dating, but we talked a few times on the phone after a party.
I randomly meet his mom and him at a store. This lady says nothing to me.
She just looks me up and down.
Later, he tells me his mom loved meeting me (wtf) and thought we would be a good couple. She told him we should consider marriage because we'd make cute grandchildren for her. It was crazy because we weren't even dating.
I haven't met my boyfriends' parents yet but his mom sounds intimidating and his dad sounds like a easy going person. He has met mine and it really didn't go that bad at all. In fact, he went to dinner with my whole family, brothers and everything. He said he enjoyed it.
I met my girlfriend at an anime convention and was friends with her for about 4 and a half years before asking her out. Funny thing is that when I first met her mother, that was also at the convention. Apparently I got her mother's approval pretty easily. Now her father's approval... A: I'll probably never meet him and B: If I did, I might want to run for dear life. Apparently he's not very fond of certain races. The older brother is getting married soon and I was invited to the wedding. He plans to give me the talk... I've softened him up already with the most expensive gifts on his gift registry, I so think he'll go easy on me. LOL! But if I ever do anything to hurt my girlfriend, I'm as good as dead. The mom is a lawyer, and all 3 of her family members own guns, practice using them, and are good at aiming. To top it off, the brother hunts... Yeah... Last I checked, I can't outrun bullets and suck at ranged combat. My specialty is close range with swords, so even armed, I'd be screwed. LOL!
My bf's mom is way cool, but I'm still intimidated by his dad. He's a very serious guy, and I always feel like he thinks I'm keeping my bf from reaching his full potential because he is spending time with me instead of doing something "productive."
Now, he is a nice guy, and he's never really said anything to that effect before, but I just feel that way. It's lame! Too much pressure!lol... sweet post. :)
I don't have such an interesting past with previous exes, but there have been some cringeworthy moments into the relationship... but i'd rather forget about that now!!! :S
@TheAsianCleric@xanga - Lol! Good luck to you! :P
Mine was funny i went to see her son in taiwan, she looked me up and looked me down so many times and asked me whether i wanted to marry her son which was hilarious.LOL and they treated me very well actually.
It was awkward and embarrassing when i met my college ex bf's mom. He was getting picked up from school to go home for the weekend; he was leaving early in the morning and after we woke up i decided to walk with him to the door of the building since his parents told him that they were waiting in their car in the parking lot. While we're walking down the flight of stairs that leads to the door, we end up face-to-face with his mom on the stairwell, and i'm wearing my itsy bitsy pj set (short shorts and a low-cut tank top). She wasn't amused. And she never liked me the whole time we were together. LOL.
But my high school bf's parents loved me =D so hey, you win some and you lose some
When I lived with my parents I had a bedroom separate from the house in the backyard, my boyfriend had only met my dad once, he came over to watch movies in my room and we fell asleep. My boyfriend had parked behind my dad so the next morning my dad couldn't leave for work until he woke me up to unlock the door...he wasn't very happy!!! Thankfully it's ok now, my parents love him.
The first time I met my boyfriend's parents I was already living with him and they didn't know and I wasn't going to tell them first. Before I moved I was working two jobs and taking 15 units, when I met them I they asked what I was doing and I had nothing to say, I had just quit my jobs to move! His dad is a CO and still after almost 4 1/2 years still hasn't had a full conversation with me. Apparently he is just this way...
Luckily I love his family and we all get along, I won't have one of those monster mother-in-laws. But I sure did feel like an idiot and pretty low when I first met them, specially because they still didn't know about me.
Not yet, but the guy I am dating is Indian and I am terrified of meeting his parents. They basically hate me already just because I am not Indian....and they have not even met me yet.... they had planned an arranged marriage for their son so his dating someone "white" is not in their plans..... I can just imagine how that meeting is gonna go...... shivering at the thought ~Echo
I met the parents after going out with him 2 or 3 times maybe. His parents are Russian and his family was sitting around the table not really knowing what to do since I was there. It was wonderful, me not really being able to understand most of what they were saying and attempting to eat food that I didn't even like. Haha
I have the (un?) fortunate situation of our parents having known each other well for quite a while before we started dating.
Our little sisters are best friends.
I think those two have our wedding completely planned out...
Lol wow. did you ever get a chance to tell the mother what really happened that night?
I met my ex wife's parents on our first date. The first words her father (a harley riding, semi driving, bushy beard having, overall wearing, good 'ol boy) says to me are, "So are you gay?" Yeah, her only previous boyfriend broke up with her by coming out of the closet. Her father and I never did get along that well...
Hmm my story really isn't that bad, just a bit awkward. I had gone four-wheeling for the first time that day with him. I was expecting to get a bit dirty, but didn't think it would be that bad because it was a dry day. Well, I still ended up with mud all over my shoes, the bottom half of my jeans and had spatters on my shirt as well. I took a shower at his place to get clean and since I didn't have a change of clothes, he had to lend me his. His mom came home not long after that. So the first time I ever met her... I was wearing a ratty old shirt of her son's and a pair of his shorts. Just awkward.
@babyblue5201314@xanga - Not really... I guess after I left the house, my boyfriend tried explaining to her that we were ONLY sleeping (which is the honest truth) - but I guess he was a little rebellious in his high school days, which made her not believe him. Woops. But since that occassion, I have stayed the night there twice due to bad roads and she hasn't minded... and he stays at my place a few times a week, and she doesn't say a word. I think it was just the fact that she didn't even know her son was seeing anyone, and all of a sudden there's a girl in his bed... haha!
@JazzedUpArcher@xanga - I totally understand how you feel!
I was dating this guy once. My whole family never called him by his real name, they always teasingly called him by a guy friends name. The guy friend's name is Greg (fake) and we were pretty close and he came around my fam a lot whenever we were in town (Greg is from Ohio, which is where my entire fam is from but my nuclear family moved to North Carolina). My family would tease me that I liked Greg and that we were cute, but I was so into the other guy at the time (they hadn't met him yet) and it was hard to convince them that Greg and I were just really good friends. Well, they ended up meeting the other guy before we officially started dating, but they always called him Greg because they have similar names (and because I think they secretly wanted me to date him). it always bothered us because I met Greg and the boyfriend at the same place and time and they knew each other, but that didn't matter because they insisted on always calling him "Greg". Well, it was a long distance relationship and for a three day weekend I flew from North Carolina to Philly to visit the boyfriend and meet his family. I met his parents and they were so excited to see me and it was going great for like two days until I called him "George" in front of his entire family. It was like time stopped and everyone, EVERYONE, got silent for a minute and looked at me like "how dare she". And then they started teasing my boyfriend that his girlfriend doesn't know his own name. I think that was THE most embarrassing thing to ever happen to me.