It’s All Relative

If you’ve just started seeing a bloke, by all means give your friends and family the lowdown. Just make sure we don’t know about it.

‘I was on a third date with a girl’, says Nick, 24 from North London, ‘and she suddenly blurted out that her mum couldn’t wait to meet me. I was terrified!’

As Brenda Della-Casa explains, ‘You might think you're being sweet, but all he sees is your ring finger pressing the fast-forward button on the relationship.’

There are better ways of getting across that you like us, without telling us we’ve got a potential mother-in-law champing at the bit.



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