So how long do you typically wait to introduce a boyfriend/girlfriend/significant other to your parents or other family members?

In general, I'd introduce someone to my parents after about four weeks, and to the rest of my family after six months to a year.

Though, I was also living with my dad when I was doing most of my dating, so if I was actively dating around now, I'd probably wait two or three months to introduce my s/o to my parents. I've had a lot of short-lived relationships that I wish I hadn't introduced to my parents when I was younger. xD

I've never seriously dated anyone before, so I wouldn't know.
I guess if I were going to introduce someone to my parents, I'd wait 2-3 months, to make sure it was serious.
Then maybe 2 more months to meet the rest of my family.

well I have had 4 bfs and only interduced one of them (the guy im going out with right now) hes the longest I've had at 8 mouths now :3... I interduced him in june which was 3 mouths when we were together. grandma didnt like it at first but now she really likes my bf and so does my papa so it worked out well :) <33

My parents are deceased (they died before I could even start dating).
But I probably wouldn't introduce anyone new I meet to the rest of my family, not for a very long time. I might mention them (blah blah me and my boyfriend saw that movie already), but probably not introduce them for a very very long time. @[email protected];;;

If I had my way? Never. But all my past boyfriends have been so casual about meeting parents that they introduced themselves right off the bat so I've never seen it as anything major, even with longterm boyfriends.

Well everyone I have dated already knew my family before we even started dating. So I more or less just had to be all "Oh hey, I'm dating this person now". But if my parents weren't aware that I was dating someone, I would probably wait about a month or so to introduce them. So that way I know that the relationship will be somewhat serious at the time I told them. But my parents don't care who it is that I date, so there isn't any issues about that. As long as it's not some jerk or something like that <o<

My special someone lives with me and my family right now, and so far they dislike her. . __. I wish they wouldn't be so hostile, but at least she doesn't care about their opinion.
Generally speaking, my special someone would probably start out as a friend first anyhow, so my family would have at least them once during our friendship before it became anything more.

I've never had a set time since none of my "dating" has ever been the typical kind. I had a few boyfriends here and there when I was in school, and generally I'd mention them to my parents and they'd end up meeting said person when picking me up from school, or when dropping me off somewhere to hang out with him or whatever. I've never really done "dating" in my adult life because I met my current boyfriend when I was fourteen and have been with him since. XD And they didn't get to meet him for a long time because I met him online. I think it was like six years before we were finally old enough to travel and see each other so they didn't meet him until then. Though, technically my mom met him sooner than that because she would chat with him online. XD I forget how that came about exactly... She knew for a while that I had a boyfriend online, and one thing that's cool about my mom is that she didn't care that I had met a guy online when I was only fourteen. She was totally okay with it, and I love her for that. Anyway, I'd say it was a few months to a year maybe when she finally "met" him. I think one of my friends may have invited her to one of our goofy chat rooms or something or other. Or I might have told him to IM her about something or the other way around. I don't know, it's been too long. But she got to know him and they'd talk to each other online every so often. My dad is completely computer illiterate so he didn't meet him until he finally came here in person, LOL. And I didn't meet his parents until even later, when I finally went to meet him. I'd never spoken to them online or anything. It was seven years into the relationship, I think, when I went to see him. His parents don't like me very much. Anyway, he lives with me now, he moved here almost a year ago and since I still live with my parents I'm glad that they get along with him.

That's funny you mention online relationships, since I had one for well over a year... and he never met ANY of my family (despite his visiting me twice).

Oh, he met my brother once, by accident, but I didn't really "introduce" them.

But I intentionally did not let him and my family meet. I knew he wouldn't get along with my parents (due to his, erm, alternative lifestyle, which included a lot of destructive decisions), so I didn't even chance it. Probably a good thing, since the guy was a total sleaze anyway and the end of our relationship was really messy...

He was more the exception though. All of my "IRL" dates had met my parents after at least a month of steady dating.

Whenever they see my parents. I start off as friends with all my significant others. I've dated people that my family didn't know I was dating until afterward. I hate the terms "boyfriend" and "girlfriend" so I never say "this is my boy/girlfriend" or anything like that.

I refuse to let my mom meet my boyfriends. I don't even let my friends meet her. She's just...awful. :|
But I've meet my special someone's parents, and they love me. I haven't met the rest of his family, mostly because they don't live near here.

My boyfriend used to be my friend before we started dating and he would visit me pretty much everyday, so my parents just asked "are you two dating already or not yet?" I've met his parents earlier as well

There is no "typically" for me; I've only ever had one real relationship. I don't remember exactly when it was that my family met him, but it was fairly early on, as would be expected since I lived with my grandma at the time and he'd have to come over to pick me up for dates--and the rest of my family made frequent visits. We had gone out once or twice as friends (along with other friends of ours) before, so she knew him (or at least knew of him) before we were actually dating, anyway.

Generally for me if I were to introduce my special someone to my close family, it would be around a month or two. I wouldn't be comfortable with my parents actually meeting my someone so earl in the relationship in case they start judging because my parents usually are very vocal with their comments ^^" Sometimes, they give out a very scary aura and might scare my someone away...

Well, for the rest of my family, it would probably be in 6 months or longer during some big family event which would get the guy meeting everyone at once. It would be a HUGE shocker for him since I usually have family reunions in 100s but oh well, it'll be good in a way so attention won;t be drawn to him. Haha!

Well within a week of dating all my bfs have met my older brother and parents. My older sister, it really did depend if she was around when he was.

My currant bf was the first to meet the rest of my family... after 3 months he met my grandparents (both sides) at our high school graduation.
He met the rest of my moms side of the family New Years day (20 months of dating).
He has still to meet my dads side of the family... we're not very close to them, so the only time I see them is Christmas. And I'm purposely hesitating how long it takes them to meet him. As far as I'm concerned it could be 5 yrs of dating before he ever meets them...

When I first started dating, I was asked out by my best friend, so my mom already knew him. I was 13 so she was nervous about it and kept a close eye on me. My second boyfriend was about three years older than me, and I was 14. My parents were not thrilled. After that, my mom kind of stayed out of it. A lot had happened after my second boyfriend. My mom didn't want me to date but kind of let go of me at that point. After that, I got married. . . . That was a disaster. Now, I'm on my own and really excited about finding someone special. I wanted to scream about it when we started dating, but I tried to take it slow. He met my mom after about two, maybe three, weeks, and he met the rest of my family slowly thereafter.

umm, I have a weird situtation. XD I brought this guy over that i met through this ex friend err well.. I added him via facebook (at first ithought him and her were dating(they never really were, i'm his first (kiss and everything) him she made him alk to her on skype and he dunno he didnt really want to.., they didn't really know each other though it was weird...not to mention he never wanted to go over there and her parents were racist *cough* and i ended up just not talking to her anymore cause some weird things i found out..long story more details i could add but let's get back to "us")..and he ended up asking me out, and I really didn't want a boyfriend until i found the right guy...sooooo..well.. I just felt some kind of automatic connection, and i ended up falling in love with him when I met him. Anyways, I didn't tell my mom at first. (errr, it's cause he is 3 yrs older then me not to mention he's a black guy..so it just makes things a bit more different and weird) It's ok now though.. because my step dad had already figured ito ut and of course she did...and it's all good now. I think they are pretty much used to it. >.<; Though stilll have secrets but, you know you can't tell mothers everything..they go biserk over stuff. lol :) He's met my grand parents and stuff.. (my step daddys parents) and well...His daddy (my step dads ddaddy my pawpaw) is a bit...racist for some reason. so it was just quiet when i introduced him. anyway, didn't worry about it. I'm in love and He's the one i want to be with...and he wants to have a family with me someday, I have to make myself happy now.. I can't just worry about everyone. That's basicallyt what my step dad told me and yeah. I'm not.
Anyway yeah, it's pretty weird introducing. I felt weird going to his house at first and his parents were there and...I thought htey wouldn't like me or something. but, they actually do. lol :P ... There's a bit more details i could add but, it's not really anyones business. so, that's pretty much it. haha :]

It used to be that the guy had to meet my parent's FIRST and ask their permission.
Now that I've moved out of the house, they usually wait two to six months before meeting my parents, depending.

I'm a little terrified about my current boyfriend meeting my parents, if it ever comes to that.
He tends to like things that aren't always okay to like, and isn't afraid to say he likes them. Like Nazi uniforms.

I've never played the dating game, but come college, I plan to start up. When I'd introduce the guy to my family would vary. I certainly wouldn't want to have him meet them before at least a month or two, just so as to make sure the relationship is steady and somewhat serious. It's so irksome when my family members and friends bring around boyfriend/girlfriends they've dated for like a week and break up with them not long after. :roll: I don't want to be the person doing that!

I'll probably end up living about 2-4 hours from home, so him meeting my family might take even longer than that, as he'll probably have his own family to visit on weekends and breaks! Ideally, I'd like to have him meet my mom first, as I think she'd be by far the least intimidating! I'd definitely want to be going pretty strong with a guy before he met my dad and siblings, because I don't think they'd be the most tactful people ever.

As for my extended family... Uh... The wedding? :rofl: I love my family, but they're crazy and could definitely scare someone off. :roll: Realistically, though, erm, like six months to a year, I think would be decent. Longer if I could manage it, but I see my extended family an awful lot.

It's been almost 5 months since me and my boyfriend have dated, and even though my boyfriend has met my mom, I'm so fucking glad that they don't really know each other. My boyfriends family thinks my mom is a fruit loop. They HATE her!

but yeah, I've already met my boyfriends family already. I go to his house like 2-3 times every single week. Hell, I think I practically live there--it's great! I wish I was there a hell of a lot more often actually! On New Years I got to spend the night, it was AMAZING!!! :D

I never had a set amount of time.
In general, I'd just put off introducing my partners to my parents for as long as I possibly could. They seemed to think that any guy who wasn't a member of their religion was automatically an alcoholic, drug-addict, rapist. :stare:

The only family member I would willingly introduce my partners to is my older brother. He's not judgemental like they are. I'd usually introduce my partners to him when I was really "into" them and could see the relationship going somewhere, whenever that was, not after X amount of time.

I once introduced one of my boyfriend's within a week and a half of dating him. Honestly I wish I hadn't because he was not worth it. Now I know that I do want to wait. I'd give it at least a month and a half to two months, enough time to know that it is at least kind of serious and not just a little fling. At that time I would only introduce him to my parents. I'd wait until about six or eight months of dating, possibly a year, before introducing him to the whole family.

I usually wait a month or so, or at least that's when my parents start wanting to meet the guy themselves. :XD

As for family besides my mom and stepdad...probably never. :|

I usually like to have them meet me family as soon as they're comfortable. My family is everything, so if my family doesn't know/approve who I'm dating, then I can't bring myself to date them. My mom's opinion is the most valued, though. Her and I are both very picky people, yea?

i introduced my current boyfriend about 2 weeks after we officially became a couple. they met him unofficially when we went on our first date. my folks like to know who i'm spending the day with when i'm going on a date. it's just incase anything goes wrong at home so they can tell people who i'm with and where i am.

i met my boyfriend's family on the third date. his family are cool, very easy going and relaxed. unlike mine which are super strict.

he's only met the english side, i dread to think what'd happen if he met the south african side of the family. they're all a bit, um, strange hehe ^^;