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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Between my two adult children in their 40s one has had a spouse and both have had long term relationships.  I have never expressed that I want to invite or go out with only my child and the spouse or BF or GF was not invited.  I would not want to insult them that way, whether I loved them, liked them, didn't care either way or hated them.  It's a path I would not go down.

If I did invite the couple(s) to something and the other couldn't make it for some reason I did then enjoy the time with just my adult child.  But I did not request it.  I would not have wanted that to happen to me so I didn't do it to them.[/quote]

Op. This is so foreign to me! It would never occur to me that one-on-one parent/adult child socializing was weird, I was thinking of parents + multiple adult children. Whenever one of my parents visit I make a point to have some time with just me and Mom or me and Dad or me and Mom & Dad. I suggest to DH times it would be particularly convenient for him to visit his mom just him. I think of it like, look, even if I like my friend’s husband sometimes I want it to be just us. [/quote]

Yeah my husband takes his mom out for dinner every year and that’s great. But if she and her husband were to invite all her kids out for dinner and say no spouses, that would be weird. [/quote]

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