Meeting the Parents

[Jesrcx]

Me and my boyfriend and have been together for about 10months now and neither of us has met the parents yet. Is this a normal time frame? As neither of us really know how to go about this, have we made it more awkward leaving it so long?

he has known my father for years now they work at the same company. He is not aware of our relationship as we chose to keep it private at first but now we don’t know how to go about it. We are both quite private so this probably doesn’t help nor have we ever introduced any past partners to our families.

something so simple, yet we’ve made it so hard 🧐

You barely know each other, so why would you be meeting parents? Wait until (if & when) the wedding date is booked!

I'd tell both parents respectively that you seeing someone and that she/he is popping round for a cuppa on x day. Keep it casual. I didn't meet my DD boyfriend till they'd been seeing each other for around 6m and it was fine.

Do either of your families have a regular meet up, like Sunday dinner or go to a Halloween event etc?
It's much easier to introduce new partners when that isn't the focus of the event.
Just say I'll be coming to "event" and bringing my boyfriend. Then you can answer all the questions that will probably be asked before they meet him.
He can do the same and once it's happened you can both choose on an ad hoc basis if it suits to attend future get togethers.
I do sympathise my DH was the first boyfriend introduced since my teens!