What did your parents think?

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.

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 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 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 loved him and he loved her.

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

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

Not keen but put a brave face on it.

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

MiniMoon

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!

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

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.

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.

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

Were they right, kircubbin?

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

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

I think they liked him.