Meeting the Family

Well I'm sure many of us have faced it... meeting your significant other's family.

Somehow this seems to be harder than meeting his/her friends. More and deeper questions are asked and being accepted is far more important.

How do you answer and react to the litanty of questions? What do you do for a living (I'm on social disability assistance)? Is the biggest and gives me a great deal of anxiety - not to mention being in a large group of strangers. What happens when those questions dig deeper?

Do I be honest or do I try to skirt around the question(s)?

I think you should ask your partner about how their family is like. People are different and families are different. Their reaction will most probably depend on their own experiences. E.g. if they had to deal with mental problems earlier they will take it better than if they don't "believe" in mental illnesses.

It usually goes better than you expect. I think your significant other might want to tell his family a bit about you so they don't ask too much.

He might also tell that you are nervous meeting them. I warned my family that my fiancée (bf at the time) is nervous meeting them so they were gentle. If you two have great relationship otherwise then that's what matters. You can discuss it ahead of time. I am not nervous meeting anyone or talking about anything but my fiancée is so I supported him through it and he survived lol it gets easier

I have to add that my fiancée has Tourette's and it gets worse when nervous. My family doesn't care about it. He actually tells people up front so won't get shocked

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