Parents & Dates/Friendships

[tonymontana99]

Is it odd that I think there should be a complete separation from friends/significant-others with parents? Sort of like complete separation of State and Church. Not that there's embarassment of presenting one side to the other... But just to have a failsafe in case something between you and your friends/SO/parents and you don't want the other parties to find out?

[lliam]

You mean, a strict separation between your friends and your parents?

I've this separation for years.

[Typhlosion]

My girlfriend currently keeps this separation because her family's... Odd, to say the least. It makes sense. I only have my immediate family (parents and sister) and there's usually no reason for they to interact with friends of mine. I have not problem if they do have to, however.

[Babs]

That's not necessarily true for everyone, but sometimes it's better. If I'm seeing someone, you bet I'm not mentioning it to my mother, because she's always so weird around her kids' s/o. And my dad is pretty intimidating, so.
But it shouldn't be much of an issue if they have nice parents.

[StoppingTom]

I don't bring those kinds of things up with my family, just cause that's who I am and it's really not their business for the time being. I mean, eventually there will have to be a meeting of some kind but shrug.