# Parents, what's your immediate first reaction when your son/daughter gets a significant other?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 10, 2017, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-whats-your-immediate-first-reaction-when-your-son-daughter-gets-a-significant-other/781835 "2017-03-10T04:24:24Z")\
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Absolute first reaction - are they a suitable PERSON? Not a jerk, player, whack-job, etc.

Next reaction - are they someone with substance. Whatever that may mean.

Next reaction - are they someone I can get along with (we’ve already established they are someone my kid can get along with). Honestly, my girl child has a creative side, but she seems to satisfy that with all of her gay-guy friends. Her choices of partners have all been kinda authoritarian security professional/military/cop types. Now, I was a theatre kid myself, so these types just don’t often resonate with ME, sigh. I know, I’m not the one dating them - but I would like to be able to have a conversation with them.

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