When did you tell your family about your SO?

[carolynred]

My Mom knew he was my SO before I did. xD We were really good friends for awhile, and when he asked me to ice cream, followed by an invitation to his graduation, apparently it was written all over my face that I had fallen for him. When he had asked me out, I told my family and they were like, FINALLY!!! lol I swear they knew the whole time though :P

[uniquefem]

My mom never really know about my SO. But she knew i was visiting him to Europe last May. She never knew his face, only knew small details that i had a boy friend in Germany. She knew that almost every night i talk with him, and he sometimes call me too. She knows from postcards, postal package that he sent me My sisters, they knew also... my youngest once chat with my SO on skype.
But it took months, and for my mom i let her knew when i am about to leave for Germany, which is 7 months after our relationship began. And its not details.
I think i will let him come here to Indonesia and introduce him self completely

[Lumos]

We've been dating over two years now, and I still haven't explicitly told them! I'm pretty sure they all know, though :P We don't really discuss personal matters like this in my family.

My SO and I acted like we were dating for well over half a year before we actually started dating, and I was too dense to notice I had a crush on him. We texted for hours every day and fell asleep texting every night. I was constantly getting asked why I was smiling at my phone, so my family knew him as my friend almost from the beginning.

About four months after we started dating, I asked my mom if we could go on a trip to Disneyland, so I could meet him in person for the first time. She didn't think that was weird because I'd met an online friend in the past. We became facebook official after that (mostly because I was too cowardly to actually tell my parents).

They don't seem to mind because they always welcome him to stay in our house and join us on family vacations

[Zapookie]

My SO and I spoke a lot on skype, almost every night for a few hours. My mum would ask me who was it that I was talking to, and I would tell her it was just a friend (because that's all he really was at the time).

He told me that he wanted to come visit and stay with me while he was here, so I had to get my mums permission. I tried to get her used to the idea by showing him to her on skype, so that she could see he was a real person and some crazy. And then after that, I asked her if she would let him stay with us. At first she said yes.. and then a couple of months later, she said no. I asked her why and she was like... "you don't know him. he could hurt us. two women against one man? that's not good. why is he coming to visit you? just for sex? blah blah blah". I had a hard time convincing her otherwise, but in the end she let him stay. I don't know why someone would pay so much money for an international flight just to have sex, but anyway. lol.

[alw83]

We had been talking online and emailing for about four months before I told anyone. We started to talk on the phone and in the first week of that I told my sister and my two best friends about him. Once we had talked a few times and I knew that we would keep talking and it was a good thing I started to tell others around me. Not everyone knew he was around until he came out here and visited and we became official. Then it came out on Facebook and all those who didn't know found out. Everyone was pretty fine with it.

[LotusWing]

I told my family about my SO when I wanted to visit him in the US. My family was not happy about it because I'm a girl, so he visited me instead and my family accepted him right away.

[13000km]

When it was established that we kind of maybe had feelings for each other I started name dropping with my family and friends. They all knew OF him but not about the relationship. That only changed when I visited him a year later in December, my parents got to say hi to him on skype, and I skyped them during my three week stay. Everybody was incredibly supportive and 6 months later I moved to the US. He finally got to meet my extended family and all my friends this August. (:

[CynicalQuixotic]

I think I told my mother that I had met an incredibly awesome guy a couple of days after our first date on our weekly phone call. I very specifically remember her saying, "But he's just a fling, right? You're not going to fall in love with this guy, are you?" and I confidently assured her that I wouldn't. So much for that. Since she tells my father everything, I assume he found out from her soon after, and I talked about him to both of my parents over the course of my time in Paris.

Oddly, the one thing in my life that my parents have never given me much crap about is my love life--my mother is a bit too nosy about my sex life (for example, right after she said the above quote, she asked me if I had slept with JP on the first date. I told her that we didn't have the kind of relationship where she could ask me that question and receive an answer. ), but other than that they've never tried to exert any influence. Not that I would let them.

As you can see, I have a somewhat complicated relationship with my parents...

[rivi87]

Well in the beginning we talked all the time and sent pics back and forth. I had left my phone on the counter and he sent one. My mom saw it and asked who he was. At the time he was a "friend" so thats what I said. Of course, he came down here on new Years and met them face to face..and the rest if wonderful history

[bluishskin]

I started telling my family about my SO about a month before his first visit (2009). I could feel things were going to get serious between both of us so I decided not to delay telling my family about it. I told them that I was seeing someone whom I had met as a friend whilst studying in Australia and he would like to visit me to start getting to know my family and myself better.
I was relieved to know that my family had nothing against long distance relationship, despite its difficulties and obstacles. They have continued to support me ever since.