Have you met all of your DH's immediate family?

[cricketwife]

The wedding poll got me thinking about this. Have you met all of your DH's immediate (living) family? To me, immediate family is siblings and parents. DH has a sister who lives in Australia that I've never met. They aren't particularly close, so he's not that bothered, but I'd like to meet her sometime.


Edited to define "immediate family."

[dulcemariamar]

Probably, but I couldnt pick them out of a crowd.

[blushing]

Yes, DH's sister even lived with us for 2 years. He only has 1 sister though, but I have met his parents, all his aunts and uncles and cousins.

DH has not met 2 of my cousins, but I am not bothered by that considering I think they twats.

[bugabean]

I eat dinner with them every Sunday. I've also met all the aunts, uncles, cousins and such on his dad's side, and most if not all on his mother's side.

[crimsonandclover]

Yes. We see them really frequently. In that category, I would include his parents, 3 brothers and 2 SILs, his 2 grandmothers, and 1 aunt who is single and lives with her mom (his grandma). That's always the crowd at all the b-day parties, and then we see each other several other times a year, as well. I like them all, although I don't really have much to say to his youngest brother, who just graduated high school 2 years ago.

[anna7602]

I've been with DH 15 years now (married almost 10), so yes, by now. But we each have a sibling neither of us is particularly close with and I also have another sibling who lives in another country, so it took a while.

[fernane]

Nope. In his immediate family I haven't met one of his sisters, but they don't really have a relationship. Other than that, he has many cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. I havent met. He has a huge traditional Mexican family and they are in several states.

[ninjatofu]

No, because a lot of them are BSC and most of them don't speak to each other. Until recently, I had no idea that we lived in the same city as many of them.

He hasn't met all of mine, either. I'm not even sure that I have met all of mine.

[irish]

What do you class as "immediate family"? To me immediate family means the parents and siblings... so yes, we have both met all immediate family and see them all regularly.

If you include aunts, uncles and cousins... then no - I haven't seen many of my cousins and neither has he in quite a while... We've met each others aunts and uncles though.

[travelingturtle]

I consider immediate family parents and siblings, too. If immediate family includes first level aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents, I've met all of my H's immediately family and even some great uncles and second cousins and such.

As for my own family, I have not met all of my cousins. I think I've met most of them.

[cupcakes]

His only brother lived with us for 9 months, he knows my living brother and sister, we know each other parents. We also know each other living grandparents and have met all of our aunts and uncles except my uncle who lives in CO and pretty much never sees my mom's family and my first cousins.

I met his second cousins and first cousins once removed and such, but we don't see that far removed family on my side generally because my family is HUGE.

We met everyone before the wedding, which I think is pretty good considering we are from different continents and I have a huge family. Also H has an uncle in Australia and I even met him.

[doctoranda]

Yes we even have met a lot of each other's extended family. Most of them are super nice.

[Deleted]

No, his has just too many cousins, some of which he hasn't seen in years. I also haven't met some of his French family members.

[mrsukyankee]

I have met his parents, he has no siblings. So immediate family, yes. I have met all his uncles and aunts, most of his cousins and even extended family. But that's the norm for Indian families. He met most of my extended family & all of my immediate family at our wedding and our whirlwind tour around the US one summer.

[clogged]

To me immediate family is him, me, and our kids. So of course he met them! lol

But by your definition..... Yes. I met all his and we hang out from time to time. He has all of mine that hasn't been cut-off.
As for distant family... cousins, aunts, uncles... I met all his aunt/uncles, a few of his cousins, and his only living grandparent.

[Wanderista]

Immediate family, yes. Extended family not so much. As I mentioned before, he doesn't have a lot of extended family these days. His family is pretty small. My family is ... complicated.

[azure]

Yes and most of his extended relatives, except for a grandfather who passed last year, he lived in another country. He has met all of my immediate and extended family.

[Deleted]

Yes. I've met his cousins as well. He's met all mine, bar one cousin. We don't come from large families.

[tricolore]

Yup, we've each met 'em all (4 siblings, 2 parents, 6 nieces/nephews).
I've met all living aunts and uncles (11) and almost all cousins (30 of 32 and most of their SOs/and kids).

[allibally]

Yes. I've met them all before our wedding. Wish I didn't meet his older brother but now we are an ocean away and I don't have to call or see him. He's met mine too.

Extended family... I met some more last September. But before that it was just one set of aunt/uncle and his maternal grandparents. H has met all the extended family on my mom's side as we get together for nearly every big holiday.

[bugabean]

Jun 25, 2012 10:28:55 GMT -5 clogged said:

To me immediate family is him, me, and our kids. So of course he met them! lol

Good point!

I hadn't realized that anyone considered cousins as immediate family. Is that some kind of regional thing or was the OP just misunderstood?

[Deleted]

We have both met all of each other's parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and first cousins.

[ktkl09]

Most, not every cousin...his mom has 8 siblings!

[popcorn]

Definitely his immediate family (mom, dad, sister) and most cousins, aunts, uncles etc (which aren't immediate family imo). I can't keep straight how everyone is related though tbh!

[elenetxu]

Yes! Holy crow, immediate family and siblings of grandparents, their kids, etc. I can't keep everyone straight. It was tough doing the wedding list for MIL's family!

[amy726]

Yes, I have met his siblings (and their partners and kids) and his mother. I've also met several of his aunts, uncles, and cousins but the majority of them I wouldn't recognize if I passed them on the street.

[Cheesecake]

To me immediate family is basically partners/parents and their children. So in your life you ciuld be part if 2 such groups, one where you're the child and 1 where you're the partner /parent.

According to that definition, yes.

When siblings of parents add into the mix, plus even their children, heck no!.We have large chunks of family spread over 3 countries and then a 4th small group scattered around the globe... I haven't even met all my aunts, uncles and cousins myself...


I have fat fingers, please excuse typos!

[Waffles]

Yes and all of his living uncles/aunts + all the cousins who still live in Edinburgh & a bunch of the Australian ones. He has a large extended family (MIL has 6 siblings and they each have 2-4 kids).

He has met all of my extended family too (5 cousins) at a couple of family events.