What do you really think about your child/children's choice of partner?

All a bit of a surprise really - 3 intellectually-minded girls picked 3 artisans - I tease them about their "bit of rough"!! But they are all 3 of them lovely!

Couldn't be better .He comes from a "rubbish" family (his words not ours) and has a very mundane job whereas she has 2 degrees but they work together so well .He is so laid-back and calms her when she gets neurotic (which she does on a daily basis)and his job means he has loads of time to spend with the children. Although he was brought up in a children's home himself,he is an excellent "daddy".As his first marriage to a much older woman failed,I was initially very concerned but they have been together for 7 years now and he fits into the extended family very well.

They are like the daughters I never had. I am very fond of them. They are good for my sons and are excellent mothers. They always welcome me to their homes.

One son is divorced but we have a good relationship with XDIL despite her being away at sea at present. She trusts us to bring up the children. Wish they hadn't split up though. Stupid pair!

Eldest son has had a few very odd girlfriends over the past few years but is now engaged to a lovely girl. {phew} getting married next year, we like her.

Nothing wrong with my daughters husbands.
Both are dentists.

Frank

Couldn't stand the first one! He was a 'bit of rough' .
Love the new one!

So that takes care of the dental work frank ?

What a coincidence that both your daughters married dentists! What's the story behind that, were they students at the same college hospital type thing?

I love 'em all. My sons in law are great guys, my daughter in law is a treasure and my youngest son's girlfriend is also excellent daughter in law material.

DIL is lovely, if I was arranging a marriage she is what I would have chosen. She is good for DS and is a wonderful mother.
SIL is okay, just wish he could get a job and DD wouldn't have to be the sole breadwinner.

DiL is great, I get on well with her,...............SiL is a $*!*%$%!!!

eldest son married a total treasure, the best mother I could wish for for the DGCs. younger son is still looking, and I wish he was not quite so focused on looks!

My sin in law ( not married ! ) is not what I imagined DD going for - they were very young ( still are ) moved in together after 5 months, DGD came along a year later when they were 20 and 21, but he is a hard worker, dotes on baby scarlett, and they are real pair of homebodies ! DD changed overnight from disco bunny to earth mother.......

DS2 partner is also lovely, and suits him down to the ground, both very bohemian!

DS1 - not met current partner as he lives in Berlin, have really liked all previous ones ( at least 8 ) bar one who was nuts !!

She's great - chatty, rarely grumbles, easy to get along with, intelligent and interesting, enjoys and is appreciative of everything I cook for her. Lets the children watch too much TV (still, she is very busy with two very young children, and she does take them out every day, so really she does brilliantly). Thank goodness, we're so lucky. Only wish they lived nearer.

No phoenix

My daughters met their future husbands at school yes 1 is the son of a teacher at the school and the other is a son of a teacher at another school.
I warned my daughters never to marry their teachers son.
The one took notice of me and the other did not.

Frank

My son-in-law is wonderful and has made my daughter so happy. I could not wish for a better partner for her. The least said about her former partner, the better.
The same goes for her sister's ex husband.
My grand-daughter-in-law, mother of two of my great-grand-daughters, is another gem and organises my grandson very well!
My grand-daughter's fiance, father of my other two great-grand-daughters, is also very kind and hard working.
Another grand-daughter is Lara, whose story is told in my thread about voting for her in a short story competition. Sam was her first boyfriend and, literally, went to the ends of the earth to be with her.
Her sister's boyfriend is more problematic, tending to spend a lot of his time with his friends, including going on holiday with them, but he is still only 22, and may improve with time! She is at university, so sees him only at weekends but even then he is often out with his mates. Not a good sign, I think.
That still leaves six gc who have not yet got into long-term relationships although some of the older ones have boy or girl friends.

I feel very lucky with my two DDiLs and one SiL - they are loving, friendly, helpful....wonderful people. We feel that we have six children!

One is an immature lad who needs to pull his finger out. He lets my daughter down too often and needs a slap on the back of his legs. The other seems OK on the surface but there is a little niggle in the back of my mind that he's not all that he seems.

My son-in-law is terrific – loving towards absentdaughter and the children, smart, practical, responsible, kind, funny and good company. He is such a paragon that he is even looking forward to his mother-in-law moving halfway across the world to live nearby.

Snap - absent!

SIL has one topic of conversation, his car ! Tells me and everyone else in great detail about the latest part he's replaced etc
He's pleasant enough and we can laugh together BUT......
I think he treats DD like rubbish. He rules the roost. She has to suffer car parts in her lounge etc.
I couldn't live with him

Our son in law is really great - a Brighton and Hove Fan Fanatic - so I have my doubts about his sanity. However, he is perfect for my daughter, they are complete opposites, and they have two lovely children both now grown up and doing well.

When my son and DIL met they were only 18 and half years old - they met at college and went to Uni together, set up home in London after graduating, married in 2001 having been together for 6 years by then. The moment my daughter and I met her we knew she was the girl for him, he knew that the first time they met. We used to joke and say if they ever broke up we wanted custody of her.
She is a 2nd daughter to me and a sister to my daughter. She is kind and considerate, an extremely hard worker in her career and a wonderful mother to my 2 darling grandaughters. I've heard work colleagues complain about their DILS. I have a friend who gets on with hers but as a totally different relationship, almost formal. So how lucky am I?

Hi dorsetpennt

Both my daughters and myself met our future spouses at the age of 11.
In all cases we married our first partners.
People did say to me and my daughters that we should have tried other partners before getting married. Why?.

Frank