How and when did your significant other meet the important people in your family? What was that experience like?

I honestly can't remember when/where my husband met my family because it was in 2010 (my husband and I were bestfriends for 7 years prior to dating so we already knew many family members).

My fiancé met my parents when he came to pick me up for our like 2nd or 3rd date. He brought me flowers and came in to meet everyone and talk for a while. Both him and my dad are car guys, so after 10 minutes or so my dad asked him to "see the cars" in the pole barn out back and that was where he had the "take care of my daughter" talk. My dad has loved him since the beginning. When he went to tell my parents he was planning on proposing my dad cried and gave him a huge hug... he's a big softie lol.

That is a sweet story! I have less than fond memories of my fiancé meeting my parents and me meeting his mom. My mom was super interrogating him when they first met and she told me it wouldn't last and he was gonna leave me - here we are almost 7 years later (but when he proposed she said "about damn time") and when I met his mom she called me by the wrong name and was pretty indifferent towards me. Its gotten better. My brother and my fiancé clicked right away and it was the same for his sister and I

FH lived at home with his parents and 4 younger brothers when we first started dating and I met (and spent time with) them all the 2nd or 3rd date - pretty sure I needed to pass the "can she handle my family" test lol. FH met my dad probably a month later when he was in town for a business trip (I lived in the same city as FH and his family, but my whole family lives 6+ hours away). I don't remember the exact time FH met the rest of my family - I think we visited my hometown for a weekend like 6 months into dating. No inquisitions from either family, though - just me (the youngest, only girl, from a very chill family) having to adapt to 4 younger brothers and a much more rambunctious household!

My husband and i went to the same church so he already met my parents. however my brother wanted to meet him so i can remember that day pretty clearly, we had a 4th of july bbq as per the usual and that's when he met my brother and was his first time at our house. he and my bro have a lot in common so that was easy for them to talk about stuff together

We hadn't been dating a month before I dragged DH down to meet my Poppi (he was 93 and in poor health, but I was the youngest grandkid and I wanted DH vetted by him), on the same day that my dad was going to be near my hometown. Poppi lived halfway down to my hometown. So we had lunch with him and dinner with my dad.

...So, poor DH got a double dose of it at once!

To be fair, I met his parents kind of by accident? We were supposed to meet up for a date, but his job had been extra messy that day, so he wanted to go home and change. He told me to meet him there (he grew up in NYC, and lived with his parents at the time). It was a SUPER HOT summer's day, and I was not exactly wearing something I would have picked to meet his parents in (nothing inappropriate, just on a skimpier side for the heat).

So, I guess it's fair?