We get to meet our youngest child’s boyfriend today. “Boyfriend” actually feels weird. This child didn’t date (aside from one disastrous attempt in high school) until she was a college senior. And those two were over so quickly we never met them and I forget their names.
this young man, however, sounds promising. He makes her happy. He’s been pushing to meet us for weeks (the previous “record holder” - who lasted almost four months including a Christmas break when they didn’t see each other for two weeks said “i don’t want to meet your family. That seems too serious.”) This one took her home for the weekend to meet his entire extended family and closest friends (it was his birthday) they have a lot in common.
So, it is possibly I could be meeting my next son in law today - not pushing, just not ruling it out. When I met son in law #1, he was teaching my younger daughter’s art class. She didn’t like him, and my first thought was “too skinny. Also vain.” He wasn’t dating my older daughter yet, but she had plans. (He’s still skinny and vain, but I adore him.) the weekend ds brought my future daughter in law home was a disaster. I had serious reservations. She also failed to measure up to my yardstick of the girl he dated for a year and I loved. But dil is a joy. A much better fit than that old gf (child of family friends) would have been. I almost feel like if I like this one, it will be a bad sign.
my mother has admonished me to behave myself. But I feel like I should begin as I mean to go on...