Keeping a new relationship private.

[MrsHusky]

How long were you and your partner together before you told friends/family?

Just started a new relationship for the first time since ExH and I split up 3 years ago, and I feel weird about people knowing about us.. almost like, telling people suddenly opens up our relationship to scrutiny/expectation/opinions, and I just want to enjoy it for a while before sharing it with anyone else.

Umm, about 2 hours, actually strictly speaking I showed dd his photo on the dating website. Mine are adults though, dd set up my profile. She lives with me so I needed her to sort out the dog so I could go out for the day

Whatever feels comfortable for you both. My only word of caution would be that your friends / family may be hurt if you keep it secret for too long

Depends on how you and the new boyf feel about it and how much your family need to know. I divorced last year. Met new man a few months after. We are now 8 months into our relationship. DD knows I have a new friend and has met him. My sister and parents are aware he exists and have been since about 4 months in but they’ve not met him and I don’t need them to. It’s the same on his side. His nearest and dearest know my name but haven’t met me. We have no plans to move in together or anything that would mean he’d need to hang with my fam.

Three or four months. I felt the same. I told family once the feeling changed and I felt needlessly secretive.

Best friends and family pretty early on (maybe a month). Other friends only knew about him when I turned up with him somewhere.