How long before you met each other's DC?

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Just wondering how long you waited before introducing your DC to your new significant other and his/her DC?

Is 10 months too soon? All DCs concerned are between 2-3 years old.

For us. 4 months. My three his four. - he has one much older as well. We knew it was for keeps. Married 8'yrs been together 11...

I met my 2yo dss after 2-3 months of dating my now dh. There were some raised eyebrows as he wasn't long divorced but we knew we were in it for the long haul and sure enough here we are 10 years later with the now not-so-little-one living with us in fact

I do think that the holiday idea was a bit too much but the length of time is def fine. Good luck!

Not to sound stupid but can anybody help me with all of these abbreviations (DP, DSS etc)

www.mumsnet.com/info/acronyms

Thanks

Straight away.

I don't see the point of the MN 6 month rule.... If my kids didn't like him that would have been 6 months wasted!

Well it depends on how you feel about relationships. I wouldn't want my children meeting lots of different men..we waited a year to make sure we were in it for the long haul and enjoy ourselves. Both sets of children knew we were dating but were all older and we wanted to respect their space in their family homes.

Really don't think there is a hard and fast rule.. My DP's kids and mine are the same age so we introduced than to each other after about 4 months.. Kids really hit it off and there wasn't any big sense of a big "introduction" or pressure.

Pretty much immediately. Lumped all four kids together on a 10 day holiday overseas within 5 months.
It was ok. We are doing it again this year
MN would have had a field day but like others have said we both thought it best to see if we would gel rather than scurry around furtively only to find out that the dynamic didn't work when they finally met after the MN rules of at least six months.

I met my partners daughter after 5 months. He met my children after about a month. It was important to me that the kids liked him (and vice versa) before we got too involved. Worked for us.

I met my DSSs (aged 5 and 10) about 4 or 5 weeks after DP and I got together. We knew it was serious, we got married after 10 months together and we've now been married 3 years. I love his kids and they love me. I'm very lucky