What was it like meeting your partners parents for the first time?

[Reedon]

I’m due to meet my boyfriends parents at a Christmas party and am feeling the nerves. I just want to give a good impression!

any tips or advice or funny stories?

I met exes parents at their house. I brought flowers for his Mum and was just polite really. I think everyone understands it's nerve wracking meeting the ILs for the first time! I do wonder if they ever feel nervous meeting the new partner?

Christmas party will be lots of fun and less pressure with so many people. Good luck!

A Christmas party should be quite a fun relaxed event. You'll be ok! Don't get massively drunk and embarrass yourself, remember your boyfriend loves you so his parents' opinion isn't as important.

When I first met my in laws, dh (dp as he then was) had painted a picture that they were very strict, hard to please types. I was taken to dinner in a very posh West London restaurant. It didn't phase me tbh. I had been brought up with a high moral code, and was used to fine dining. I think I held my own just fine.

Fil was shocked that I declined all alcohol (I don't drink) and asked for tap water when asked if I wanted still or sparkling mineral water but I had the confidence to know what I wanted and wasn't afraid to ask for it. Sorry, that's not a very funny story really. But I am just trying to say, be yourself. You can't be anybody else.

The first time I met my late FIL I was completely naked. I recommend being clothed as a good starting point.

Oh and as @Heartstopper said, try not get too drunk!

At my husband's uni you can graduate whenever you feel like it, so he and his brother signed up for the same session, about 4 years after they'd finished. So of course the whole family appeared for this: our first meeting. As soon as they appeared, (now)DH and his bro said hi n bye and buggered off to be gowned up. And I was left looming over these weeny people I'd never met before. Both about 5'2" so small, but in my mind in this important situation I felt so huge! Also in the party was a ferocious aunt, retired headmistress, who dragged us all off for coffee in a posh hotel, thrust me into a big squishy chair that I couldn't get out of easily, and gave me the third degree about my job, degree, interests, antecedents, inside leg.....it was hilarious. Apparently I passed. We've been married over 30 years.