Positiveaynayim and Aries2756 both make salient points, and their opinions should read and re-read. It really is not fair that the girl’s parents get to meet the boy, but the boy’s parents do not get to meet the girl, sometimes as PosA pointed out, until the l’chaim. After 4 dates or so, the boy SHOULD bring the girl around to meet his parents. And mothers of boys, try to remember how you felt about your own mother-in-law. If she was obnoxious to you, do you really want your future D-I-L to feel that way about you, too? And if she was an absolute doll, would you not want your son’s wife to say that to their children some day about you, too? My husband and I were both very lucky – our respective in-laws were amazing and loving, a real second set of parents to us. My children are even luckier, because that is how we treat THEIR respective spouses.
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