What did your parents think?

I think they liked him.

Didn't like him, researched his past and heard he was a drinker.

Definitely liked, had lots of multi-generation holidays, always spent time together over Christmas, Easter and birthdays.

Were they right, kircubbin?

He got on well with Dad immediately, but took longer with Mum.

Definitely liked - and did until the day they died - and trusted him and consulted him about any work they were thinking of having done to the house.

I'm sure they liked him. They always seemed happy to see him. I think they were relieved when he asked me to marry him. I was 29 and they must have thought that I was never going to find a man.

They liked him from day one, welcomed him into the family treated him like a son and it continued until they both passed away, he had a lot of respect for them too and called them mum n dad

DM adored him. She loved her in-laws better than her own children. That's what she said anyway and it certainly worked as they were all good to her!

MiniMoon

They loved him. We married April 1975. (Shotgun) Mum said I was a lucky girl. In another breathe she said she didn't think it would last although she hoped it would.
He cleared off in January 1987 with someone he worked with. Divorced January 1987

Not keen but put a brave face on it.

They never criticised. My father was very pro-German, so he approved of my marrying a German.

My mum adored my OH, he could do no wrong. My dad liked him but was always a bit in awe of him. Mum spoke perfect English, dad did not.

They liked him, and he loved them. My mother mothered him.

My mum loved him and he loved her.

They didn’t speak to him for two years, they strongly disapproved because he was divorced, a teenage marriage which lasted about a year.

Fast forward forty five years, and I haven’t spoken to her for twenty years, while he still visits her with the children now and then.

My Mum disliked him at first but ended up loving him as much as her own son. He ended up being closer to her than his own mother.

They thought he wasn't good enough for me. They were probably right but I was determined to marry him. Divorced after about 35 years.

My dad hated my ex on first sight because ex didn't do a job that got his hands dirty (he was an academic) and my dad was a working class engineer with permanently dirty hands. They hardly ever spoke all the time my dad was alive.

My father was dead by then but my mother hated my husband as I was pregnant when I married. My family were staunch Methodists so no alcohol at the wedding, my husband's family could be heard asking loudly where the beer was. Not a union made in heaven.

Mind didn't like my dh, partly because of his (to them) too long hair and a very rough and rather smelly sheepskin jacket he'd picked up for peanuts on his travels, but largely because they thought he'd treated me badly.

By the time we married, about 7 years later, my father approved entirely, and my mother thought the sun shone out of his backside.

Hated (mother and stepfather) but because they were abusive and controlling not because of him. Never sent him a birthday or Christmas card, never invited him anywhere, said he was rude and antisocial despite not inviting him and once offered to buy me a car if I left him x

My parents never met my Husband as they died in my early teens but I think they would have loved him and him them.