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" Now that Thanksgiving break is over, Winter Break is right around the corner! For me, this always means lots of family time. I love my family, but there&amp;#039;s one subject that I dread discussing around the dinner table: my love life. No matter how hard I try to play dumb, this question always comes up: &amp;quot;So, is there anyone special in your life?&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s annoying no matter my relationship status. Either I&amp;#039;m single and alone, or I am currently seeing someone, but chances are good that I probably don&amp;#039;t want to discuss either situations with the whole fam! Over Thanksgiving, for instance, I dodged the &amp;quot;Any new boys?&amp;quot; question from my mom at least six times. My dad, on the other hand, basically pretends like my dating life is nonexistent until after I&amp;#039;ve broken up with someone, at which point he makes fun of me for dating losers. We&amp;#039;ve all been there, right? Usually, my strategy is to stay silent, so I asked my brother how he deals with the questions. His response: &amp;quot;I haven&amp;#039;t talked to Mom about girls, like, ever.&amp;quot; Words of wisdom.  But there&amp;#039;s also only so much you can take. So at what point do you introduce a new boyfriend to the family? In the past, I&amp;#039;ve brought my exes home to the same interrogation. Normally, they don&amp;#039;t understand my dad&amp;#039;s sarcastic sense of humor and can&amp;#039;t handle the 21 questions from numerous family members, and this makes me like them less. At the end of the day, my family&amp;#039;s opinion matters, and someone who doesn&amp;#039;t quite fit in probably won&amp;#039;t make it in the long run. That&amp;#039;s why I avoid talking about new guys in my life like the plague. I don&amp;#039;t see any point in discussing them with the fam or introducing them to everyone when it&amp;#039;s just in the beginning stages.  I know guys in the past that have been offended that I postponed the whole family meeting, but I&amp;#039;m really just trying to spare them. I know that being introduced to a girlfriend or boyfriend&amp;#039;s family can sometimes can be totally nerve-wracking. If you aren&amp;#039;t officially boyfriend and girlfriend, then how do you introduce them to your family? Is there an official timeline for family introductions, or does it just entirely depend on how you feel? Help!  Isabelle blogs about dating every Thursday for Seventeen. Read her last post here! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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