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before mrs ccb and i got married, they met up. the conversation turned to my dad and mrs ccb's dad's childhood love of making their own explosive devices and setting them off in the bunkers of golf courses. was quite amusing.

i think they still send each other christmas cards.

they're quite different but they got on alright. Our mums seemed to enjoy discussing their various ailments with each other.

THe only time this has ever happened was with my husband, and our parents were friends before either of us were born.

My parents are fucking awesome, but supremely eccentric. I do worry about ever introducing them to people who mught not get them.

(well father in law and his girlfiend/partner/other half*) the first time was at my son's funeral. The second was th slightly happier occaision of our wedding. I've still not met her mum though.

*delete according to preference)

They had no real interest in each other, but both parental sets felt that box had to be ticked. Now it is done and they don't ever have to see each other again.

or have you met your partners parents or have your parents partners met your parents or something.

We met on here and have both told our parents different lies about how we met and I'm scared if they meet and get chatting they'll find out :/

My mum's very polite and friendly and stuff, but when my ex and I broke up her dad had "half a mind to call his mother!"

She talked him out of it but part of me wanted it to happen just so he'd get a lesson in mis-judging characters. Phoning up a wee single mother from Airdrie to denigrate her only son's character? Fucking hell, she'd have melted his face clean off, the twat.

I imagine they will one day. They'd probably get on.

A couple of weeks ago my gf and I went to visit her parents, and they mentioned that next time my parents were up, we should all go out for a meal or something. This kind of surprised me, though I'm not sure why. We've only been together 7 months or so. It's kind of nice to think that they want to meet my family though, I feel sort of accepted..

The first meeting we weren't even there which was a relief. My girlfriend's parents ran a cafe so my parents went in and met them and had a chat. They are totally different kinds of people, her parents have now split up and have both got new partners which makes things even more awkward.

Different countries, different languages.

To be honest, her parents wouldn't risk acting up incase i batted them away from the cash teet.

Being Eastern European they're normally drunk anyway, and are just happy to have their daughter associated with an upstanding English gent.

Wouldn't bring them over, though, even if they had passports. Odds are they'd do a bunk.

(If this isn't headed over the line within seconds i'll be very surprised).

TBH, I'm dreading it slightly. Her dad is very forthright and a barrister from Northern Ireland who likes to tell long ambling stories showing off his vocabulary. From dad is an immigrant painter and decorator with a cockney accent whose only three topics of conversation are QPR, the cultural differences of all the different nationalties he's worked with (Polish are very quiet and hard working, Brazilians are all well religious and talk about God and jesus all the time, the English are lazy wasters who do coke in the toilets at lunch) and the First World War.

Both mums have that innate mum skill of talking incessantly (which having a few female friends who've recently become mums stems from I've clocked being at home talking at someone who is incapable of talking back) so it would be full on small-talk-ageddon

Her mom and my mum and dad. She came over here to visit us last year and they met. We had a curry and it was great. They are excited to meet the rest of her family in September next year at the wedding.

we've been together six years, it'll only happen if we get married.

My dad is very shy and small, he's a pretty liberal DiS sort of guy, likes talking about music and films and cats and stuff. My boyfriend's mum is a bit scary, bit casually racist and is 15 years younger than my dad. I can't imagine what they'd talk about, but I'm sure they'd just get drunk together and be polite, talk about traffic routes, then try and escape as soon as possible.

I can't really envisage how/why it would happen before a marriage either.

They are absolutely worlds apart as well so it'll be interesting to see when it happens.

Girlfriend’s Mum and Step-Dad were down visiting. We were out for a walk. Bumped into my parents. My Dad bought everyone an ice-cream. Nothing bad happened.

we've been together 10 years, including married for 6 years. They don't live near each other at all, to be fair.