Parents have read it. How did your son or daughter's significant other win you over?

There are enough threads about how you ended up hating your son's girlfriend or daughter's boyfriend,

but what had they done to gain your support? When I was in 10th grade, a guy I liked came over.

My dad heard him playing guitar, and apparently that's all it takes for my dad to fall in love.

That was the only time we hung out. I'm 31. He still asks about that guy. I was supposed to be one of

those good Asian daughters that didn't date until I finished college. I got rebellious in sophomore

year and decided to keep dating the guy who took me to winter formal. Mom actually liked him. Dad

refused to acknowledge him. One day, my dad mentioned he got a new car stereo and he was going to take it

to Best Buy to have it installed. Boyfriend said, nope, let me handle it, and spent an entire Saturday

afternoon installing the radio and cleaning up the wires in his dash. Dad loved him afterwards,

basically treated him like his own son. Parents didn't even bat an eye afterwards when we

started living in sin a couple of years later, but by that time he was an engineer, we were engaged and I couldn't give a rats behind.

I had been casually seeing a guy for a couple of weeks when one night we were out to dinner

and I was having a particularly homesick night.

I lived 15 hours from my family and at this point I hadn't seen him in over eight months.

He joked and said that we should drive home and surprise my mom for Mother's Day that weekend. The next day, we were in the car driving. I've never seen my parents so surprised. Also a little

worried, I think there were initial thoughts for that something had gone terribly wrong and I was there to

deliver the news. My parents have loved him ever since. Won my significant other's dad over by shaving

him. We had a not too close relationship, always quite distant.

After he suffered a stroke and was hospitalized, he couldn't move too well.

And as he did not want to be washed and shaved by the nurses, and my significant other

was not able to do this, it was my duty.

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