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

There will be other opportunities, em. I visit my sister and BiL several times a year.

Nice to see you back em

Oh anno there's a reason to regret that I've been incommunicado! What an opportumity missed. It is bitterly cold and still snowing.
Thanks for those kind messages, ladies. Hope to 'see' more of you.

Lovely to see you back, em. Your DD must have inherited her mum's backbone. How's Dundee today? It was snowy when I left yesterday.

My SiL has no conversation. Nice but dim.

Wellcome back

Let's hope he stays there,*em*. All best wishes to your daughter and yourself and I really hope things are looking up for you both now.

I've been truly blessed by my children's choice of life partners. I have two wonderful sons in law and love my son's partner to bits. And they have all brought into my extended family their own lovely, loud, eccentric relatives - our get-togethers are fantastic.

We're very lucky.

Welcome back em, you were missed..Well done you and well done dd

My dd's choice of partner goes a long way to explaining my long-term absence from GN.
she has been so ill for so long and his whole attitude was awful. However with family support she plucked up the courage to leave him. Nearly 4 months on she is coping so well and
I am very proud of her.
She is now in receipt of Disability Living Allowance, has rented a house to suit her family and yesterday took delivery of her Mobility car.
Physically she still struggles but emotionally is healing now.
I am hoping that I too might benefit from the change and will get back some time for myself.
I've missed GN and hope to return often.
Meantime the awful ex is on the margins of our lives!

My DD's ex has really come up trumps. They are still best friends even though not living together. This is great for the children. He was a bit immature at first although I've always liked him but he's shown his true colours and been fantastic with DD's dreadful new relationship experience. I couldn't wish for better. I'm very fond of DS's partner too. She was shy at first but has got used to my sense of humour and we have girly sessions which are fun. I'm very lucky.

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

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?

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.

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

Snap - absent!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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 !!

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!

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

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.