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Because we were long distance (ny and la), the third time we ever saw each other, Mr. Bee met my parents about 2 months after we first met.
I met Mr. Bee's parents 5 months after we first met because they lived abroad.
What about you? When did you first meet your FI's parents? And when did he first meet yours?
I met his entire family at his mom's wedding 3 months into our relationship. Needless to say, I was pretty nervous that day.
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I went out to dinner with his parents and his Nana (he the BEST nana ever) on our third date -- no joke! He met mine that same night when he came to pick me up for the date. His Nana always talks about that night (she's 93 now, 6 years later) and reminds my fiance that she told him that "She's a keeper" ... I love that story!
He met mine after about 2 months (they are local to us), and I met his after 4 months of dating (they are in the east coast and we're in the west coast)
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about a month or so in i was brought over for Sunday Sauce, where I later learned in the family a girl has to be "sauce worthy" (of eating his mom's homemade marinara) to make it over for the lunch. He and his brother's always discussed girls and would ask is she sauce worthy? I was the first and last for him
I met them after about 2.5 months. They're great and love my son now so much too! Couldn't be more blessed than to have them also!
I met them a little over six months after we started dating- partly due to them living in a different country than us at the time, but the more that I know the FI's family dynamics, the more I'm convinced it wouldn't have been any earlier (maybe even later) if we'd all been in the same country.
The night he brought me by, he didn't realize his parent's were having a huge family dinner- there were about 20 relatives over! I was flabbergasted, not the least by the fact that I didn't speak a word of Italian and no one spoke any English! A few of the aunts and uncles tried to speak to me, and one asked (upon seeing how dumbfounded I looked) if I was a bit short in the intelligence department.
It was about nine months of dating before he met my family, again due to living in different countries. I think it went really well, but I'm sure if you asked him he has a story or two!
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I met my fiance's parents early on in the relationship.. possibly within the first few weeks. He met my parents soon after, but at the time he was only introduced as my "friend." I have very strict parents, and they would rather refer to him as just a friend at the time. We both knew how special our relationship is early on, and meeting the parents didn't scare us too much.
I met his parents about 7 months after we'd been dating-- we were doing a long weekend up at the lake with family/friends for his informal bday celebration. He met mine about a month or 2 after that.
What about the parents meeting the parents?
for us, our parents met each other about a year and a half after we'd been dating, at my graduation.
Now I have had some *really* bad parent experiences (like an ex's mother breaking up our engagement), so when fiance went on and on about how awesome his parents were, I just dismissed it. I told him I wouldn't be meeting his parents for a good long time (if we survived that long!)
Mind you, I'm 11 years older than the guy. Parents are going to hit the roof when they find that out. You might as well wait and see if this is a guy worth going through all of that for.
To top it off, we were long distance. Every meeting involved a flight and a weekend stay, so our time together was precious.
On our third "date", I planned to come down to Tahoe to hang out for the weekend. The flight was booked and I was ready to go. Then, on Thursday night he tells me that his parents will be staying with us all weekend too.
I almost cried. I almost broke up. I did find a back-up place to stay.
He kept telling me his parents were awesome and were going to love me, and that I had nothing to worry about. I was still upset AND I had been on call Thursday night and was totally sleep deprived.
I went down there anyway, and met the parents (under duress... I must have really liked the guy to do that). They were everything he said about them and more. They were the first parents that I thought were totally awesome. I still do!
3rd date seems to be a magic number ;)
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4 months...but it was actually the first time I'd flown out to Seattle (where he lived and my FILs live) since we started dating LD. He met mine kind of unintentionally 2 months later. We went on a trip with my sister and BIL and only just passed through Detroit for a few hours and my parents were also out of town. He was set to come to Detroit for Thanksgiving a couple months later, but it turned out that my parents got in early so we ended up having dinner...at which my FH totally freaked out my Dad by hugging him goodbye. My Dad likes to be all standoff-ish at first with BFs, but so much for that!
I pretty much kissed him and met his parents a few days later. Ha. It's a long story but basically we met on a 3 week long work trip and the 2nd week was in his parents' hometown. Needless to say, I busted a move pretty quick, huh.
I met his Dad the first holiday that we were dating. He met my parents the same holiday. But I still haven't met his mom, don't know when I'll get the chance. She may not even attend the wedding (to avoid his dad) so I may not see her for maybe a year after we get married!
I met his mom the same night I met him (and one of his brothers). This was about a month before we started dating. I met his dad and step mom probably a month in. Not positive. They live accross the street so it wasn't formal they just dropped in one day.
He met my parents on Thanksgiving, which was about a month after we started dating. We had had a huge fight the night before and broke up only to tentatively get back together that day. I was really uncomfortable about him meeting my family, but everyone we knew was going to be there and knew that he was supposed to be there also. I really didn't want to aire our dirty laundrey either. Luckily it all worked out.
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He met mine after 5 months.
I didn't meet his until 8 months (because they live far away)
He met my parents after about six months, but I didn't meet his until after three years. It's a really long story, but it's not because he doesn't have a good relationship with his family OR because they don't approve of me. In his religion, you basically only take a girl home if you're going to marry her, so we waited, and I was really glad we did!
It was after a few months of dating that we got to meet each other's dads - we were both living/working abroad where we had met, so his dad flew north to visit us and mine flew south. 
We got to meet each other's entire families around this past Christmas, after about 10 months of dating.
The families will finally meet each other at the wedding! His dad doesn't speak English, my parents don't speak Spanish... should be interesting!!! Eek!
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My FI's parents are older (around 80) so he helps them out a lot. I met his mom about a month into things. She was just okay at first, but has warmed up to me.
My family lives 2,000 miles away, he's never met them. So when we visit them next month we will be announcing our engagement as well!
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He met my parents first...probably about 3 months after? Yeah and my dad let him know that he owns a gun!! LOL!!! Isnt that fun!! I met his parents I think about 6 months maybe? I think it was a birthday party for his sister's kids.
I met his whole extended family about eight months into our relationship, when they had a huge going-away party for a cousin of his who was joining the military. I think he'd asked me to a few other functions before that, but I didn't go to them for various reasons I don't remember.
He had seen and spoken to my mother briefly once or twice before we started dating (we worked together), but the first time he really met my family as my SO was about seven months in. (My parents live far enough away that we hadn't really had an opportunity before that.) He flew to a city he'd never been to, alone (I was already there on a school break and picked him up at the airport), to stay in the home of a family he'd never met, to whom he was basically introduced as "the older guy your daughter/sister has been hiding from you for months." I was proud of him.
I met his parents before we started dating (we were friends), and most of the rest of his family within a few weeks, I think. My family isn't local, so he didn't meet my parents until 6 monthhs of dating (we went to visit them).
He wanted me to meet his parents after 2 weeks of dating - I wanted to wait a little longer so I met his parents after a month of dating (and instantly LOVED them - they are awesome!!!) and he met my parents the following weekend...they LOVED him especially when he & my dad discovered their mutual love of all things Home Depot & Lowe's related.
I had already met his parents AND grandparents by the time we started dating...we were "best friends" for quite some time. :) I'm pretty sure he had met the majority of my extended family before we were "officially" together. When my aunt uncles found out we were together they were all like "Well it's about time!!!"
My fiance was surprisingly excited to introduce me to his mom (which I thought was really cute). I think I met her on our third date! :)
He met my parents about 2 months later when I was home for Christmas break. I met his mom a month after that. Since then we have spent tons of time with each others families and it it has been really great.
I met his parents after we had been dating almost four months. My fiance and I live about 90 miles apart, so in the beginning of our relationship we didn't see each other very often. Four months of dating was really only a handful of "dates" and felt very soon to me!
I can't remember when he first met my mom. I think after 6 months or so. It makes me sad he'll never get to meet my dad, who passed away 9 years ago.
I met his mom the first time we ever hung out. He was living at his mom's at the time and asked if I wanted to come over to chill. He must've told his mom about me because as soon I walked in the door, she was bombarding me with a million questions about my mom; she was super excited that I was half Filipino.
He meet my parents a few months later. It was more formal, we all went to dinner together.
We were in grad school in NYC and our parents both lived a plane ride away. He met my parents and I met his for the first time at graduation - which meant, 3 months into dating, our parents met each other too. It was pretty stressful having all that happen at once, our parents are pretty different!! They didn't see each other again until our wedding weekend, nearly 4 years later!
We were also long distance! I met his sis and bro the next day after our first date. Then the next time I came into town was 4 months later (after we became official) and I met his parents, and then his siblings again. He met my mom 5 months after that (9 months into our relationship) when he came to visit. But my mom knew about him from the beginning.
We started dating when I was fresh out of high school, and he was in his second semester of college (we're both out of college now) so we were both still living at home. We met each other's parents within the first few dates because of that.
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He took me to meet his parents one month in. I was very impressed with this and took it as a sign that this meant he was serious. This was right around the time he started calling me his girlfriend, too. He had met my mom before that because I lived at home and if he was picking me up, he had to run into her at one point or another.
Uh, I met them on the first date - the first time meeting him in person! - because he lived at home and wanted to watch a movie since we hit it off so well :) Yes, it was weird, but I didn't hold it against him. :) Then, I went out to dinner with his entire family on our second date (but really the first since it was a full date, not just a coffee meeting). Yes, you think I would have been scared off, but I really didn't think twice. 
Also, I really can't remember when he first met my mom, maybe the second week. We moved this fast in the beginning and now have a 3 year engagement!
Our moms met before we did, and while we were getting to know each other, I spent more time with his parents and sister at first. He had just moved back home at the time (his dad was a professor at our college, and they lived across the street.. he did NOT want to live in the dorms), so I spent almost all of my spare time the first year we were together at their house. He met my parents briefly that first day we met, but we had been dating for two or three weeks before he met them again as "the boyfriend."
we're long distance so he didn't meet mine until 10 months in [only the 2nd time we saw each other!] and i met his shortly after 2 months later. i was nervous both times but we were both immediately accepted into the family. WHEW!
We met each other's parents 17 years before we started dating:) I always used to say I'd marry him just so his mom would be my mother-in-law, luckily I got to marry him because I loved him too.
My fil and I met, probably two yrs into our relationship. It was stressful. they are a different ethnicity and culture than I am. And to this day- it is stressful.
It was nearly one year before I met his parents. We were in undergrad and because of the distance he didn't go home often at all and his parents didn't visit much. I believe he met my family after about 5 months or so... but my hometown was only about 60 miles away and my family visited fairly often.
I invited him to meet my family within four days of becoming officially boyfriend/girlfriend. I met his family one week later, I think. I was the first girl he dated that his parents really liked. That visit was a huge step for both of us in realizing that we were meant to be.
I met his parents about about 3 weeks before we started even dating. We have the same hometown, so I drove him home from college one weekend. I met his parents and his grandparents in the same trip! It was amazing because the vibe I got from his grandparents on the first meeting was, "We love you, and if you don't date our grandchild, we will be so disappointed."
We started dating while I was 17 hours away. I was taking the semester off doing an internship in Disney World, and he was back home. So we dated for two months before we saw each other, but I met his mom the day I got home...and he didn't bother to explain who she was. Some random woman called me by name and chatted with me, and I was like "Whoa...what? What just happened?!" Turns out it was his mother.
I feel worse for how he met my dad, though. P was working at American Eagle when a strange man walked up to him.
Man: "Are you P?"
P: "...yes."
Man: "Do you know Gidgett?"
P: "...yes."
Man: *hands him a business card* "I'm her father."
Bless his heart. I was mortified.
Luckily, everyone in our families get along, but for a while there...we didn't know what to expect!
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