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  • have you asked to meet his family, or asked why you havent met his family?
  • There could be a lot of reasons why, sometimes they can be embarrassed of their family. I have an Uncle who is extremely inappropriate and asks questions that are totally off limits. I have always tried to shelter my boyfriends from that. I can also remember dating people who were much better off financially, and I did not want them to see I/we were in a lower income bracket. This was when I was very young, and I no longer care about such things, but I do remember feeling that way. My boyfriend now, despises my Mother... okay tolerates her, but he has every reason to, she is not healthy emotionally and makes everyone around her miserable. Try to be tolerant and understanding, until you know all the facts.
  • Before I would move in with him I would want to meet his family. Is he embaresed... of them?This may hurt...of you? You need to be well informed before you make the financial move! Watch Judge Judy! A months is early to move in but I married my husband after only 1 yr so time is not an issue BUT I meet his family and he met mine about 3 weeks into our relationship. Have a little get together and invite both sets of parents over.Make it a theme party,those are fun and people can dress up...70's, or 80's, Halloween ect. Good luck!
  • I'm not quite 20, but nobody else has answered yet anyway. No, I wouldn't automatically end it with him. It depends why he hadn't introduced his family to me, I'd expect him to tell me that much. The reason why would determine how I dealt with it. It seems like he asked you if he could meet your family, have you actually asked him? If you're just waiting for him to offer then you might be waiting a long time, there's a decent chance he expects you to take the approach he took.
  • Ask him. If he says no or avoids it, ask him for an explanation. no sense starting off a relationship with doubts or secrets.
  • I would speak to him about it before you do something as rash as ending the relationship. How he responds will determine the next step you take.
  • No, I wouldn't end my relationship with my partner over something like that. There could be plenty of valid and perfectly understandable reasons as to why your boyfriend hasn't introduced you to his family yet. Not all of us are fortunate enough to come from loving, stable families - perhaps he is worried about you meeting his family for some particular reason. Or, it could be something as simple as his family members never being in the same spot long enough for an introduction to be made. You seem to realize that your boyfriend is serious about you, but are you serious about him? Most adult relationships don't end over something that could easily be resolved if you asked him what was going on. Communicate your feelings with your boyfriend and let him know that it is really important to you that you meet his family. Let him know that you would feel much better about things if you knew his family a little better. It's not an unreasonable thing to ask - but I also don't think it is unreasonable that you haven't met them as yet. Good luck.
  • You're treading on dangerous ground. In my experience, I once dated a Cuban man who I really wanted to spend my life with. I was in graduate school and he was an undergrad. At that time in our lives, you know, people are really concerned with age gaps. He was scared to take me to meet his mom and kept putting it off and off. And then there came the point where she has to call over to my house to find him all the time.... And then it never seemed like the right time. Well (I've learned subsequently) being Hispanic, this was an UNACCEPTABLE process, and by the mother would be considered excluding a mother from her young son's life. I didn't do it, he did, nonetheless I can see how she wouldn't know that and blame it on me. We fell in love and should have visited. Instead, my Americanized boyfriend just created an extended weekend of it that went on and on for months. Apparently mom nattering in his ear when he would show up at home that any woman who would yadda yadda. And he broke up with me. His friends are the ones who told me the above analysis. Now even though your man is perhaps not Hispanic, I suspect that putting a block up between GF and parents is not healthy. Get to the heart of this: is he embarrassed by his parents, just doesn't like them, doesn't think they matter in his decision-making, or is it...something about you (not being the right relgion, age...yadda yadda). Find out and deal with it is my suggestion.
  • I would ask him to. He might have a horrible family and be afraid that you don't want to meet them.
  • i would want to talk about it. breaking up is really harsh i wouldn't go that far but i would want to know why...
  • OK turn it around. If I was dating a woman and she did not introduce me I would not care, I don't want to met them. But in reality I am not what someone would consider a catch, never was. So I can understand her not wanting to hear negative things about someone she cares about. If you don't know the family then it is maybe not you but them. They might be some bunch of losers, wackos or just not nice people and the other person might be the one embarrassed by them, not by you.
  • If something that small would make you leave him then maybe you should leave. Personally, I wish my husband had done me the same courtesy.
  • No, I would ask him why he had not taken me to meet his family first (before ending it).
  • Take it from me, the longer you go before meeting the parents, the better!!!! Because when you do, you'll kinda wish you never have.

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