Introduce myself and offer them a drink. You know, like a normal human being....
depends on the in-law's look or the situation at hand
If my daughters were truly happy, and I thought their older lovers were not exploiting them, I would be happy for them.
It wouldn't matter a damn what I thought and if I objected that would very likely cement their relationship.
My eldest daughter, who is now married with a family of her own, brought a much older man home when she was 17. A sleazeball if ever I saw one!
I was very polite. Made him a coffee and saw him to the door afterwards. Walked him down to the gate with my two German Shepherds and politely told him that if he ever came down this path again I would set the dogs on him. He never returned!
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
Was out with a young man and ran into his mother... we smiled and chatted a little. I'm guessing she was out to find a nice young man to give her the same thrill her son gave me. I'm sure she did too, damn she was hot and I was a little jealous.
I am older than my girlfriends father. The first time we met, he was somewhat standoffish, but now (several years later) we get along fine.
Red is the color of sex and signs that say Do Not Enter
The best thing to hear in the middle of the night - Lick Me
Get to know him and figure out if there's an angle. I'd be more suspicious than if she (I have a son) was close to his age and would pry more but if all seemed on the up and up, I'd let it take its course. An age gap that big is unlikely to last.
Kids falling for a person parents disapprove of has be the subject for poems and literature for thousands of years. In this modern age there isn't much you can do about who your adult children date. At least here in the Illinois Valley we don't have blood feuds, duels, etc. Well, none of these things have made the local papers or been on Facebook.
That being said, you might as well be cool about your kid's love interest. I know parents that have gotten pissy about it and it almost always backfires.
Would like to think I would be cool
But I have one of those faces that say it all without saying..a word
Depends on a lot of things
But big age gaps means usually two people are at different stages in their lives
Say a thirty something woman with a twenty something man..she might be thinking babies he might be thinking booty
Or vice versa
YES there are exceptions to every rule and age doesn't matter to some people
But I did marry a man nine years older and it did make things harder
So I doubt my kids will ever bring their dates over..lol la mama is too transparent
Well at first I would have many of the common concerns I think most people would have in that situation. However, I think that a reaction like that is only natural. Overtime, I'm sure I would get over it and just try and appreciate the fact that they both enjoy one another's company on a romantic level.
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I would be totally nice and all that and I would even attend his funeral after the freak accident that would happen to him a short while after meeting me.
Once knowing his/hers intentions were in the right place and truly loved my son or daughter,I would be fine...Love knows no age...
Have a light conversation with him. Ending with this statement. If you hurt her I have no problem with going back to prison.
There's a saying...shoot the first one, word will spread. Pretty much sums up how I would handle the situation.
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Take my child to see a psychiatrist. Obviously they are demented to be with a person that is closer to death.