Millionaire Match: Thanksgiving at the Folks with Your Significant Other

Braving Thanksgiving with your parents and Significant Other or their parents? You’re brave. So we at MillionaireMatch would like to help. MillionaireMatch is both a dating site (https://www.millionairematch.com) and app (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/millionaire-match-rich-dating/id967177414?mt=8) for successful and attractive singles, like you!

We usually focus on getting you a date, but here we’re going to focus on getting you and a date through Thanksgiving with your family.

Bring A Significant Other

Why should your date be a Significant Other (SO) rather than just a Semi Significant Other? Because Thanksgiving is a family holiday even if that family is your chosen family of close friends. New Years Eve and Halloween are party holidays and ripe for Semi Significant Others, but on Thanksgiving you and your date will be sitting at a table, scrutinized and not even particularly drunk. You’ll be surrounded by loved ones who wish only the best for you and they’ll want to know your dating status. It’s not the time to say, “Mom, Dad, we’re just sleeping together”.

Expect Questions

Be prepared to answer questions. “How long have you two being seeing each other?” and “What do you do for work?” are likely ones and ones you can prepare for. “Do you plan to have children?” and “How do you feel about the president?” are less likely questions, but they and other shockers could come up. Answer uncomfortable or possibly controversial questions as briefly and non-committally as possible (unless you happen to know the right answer). Now is not the time to make your stand, now is the time for us to all just get along. Don’t be ashamed to divert people with questions of your own, “Where did you find such a wonderful pie?” and compliments “What a beautiful table setting!”

Bring A Gift

Wine, a homemade side or dessert or flowers are all good gifts. If bringing wine, consider that it’s inevitably going to be paired with turkey. A fruity red or white is good or bring a sweet wine for dessert. If bringing flowers, it’s not entirely clear what’s a Thanksgiving bloom besides corn, so stick with elegant whites. If bringing food, a dessert or side dish is great. By its nature it’s impossible to have too much food for Thanksgiving. But don’t bring an entree. Entrees are provided by the host and bringing your own is almost insulting.

Offer To Help

Oddly, given that they’re the guest, it’s more important that the invitee/visiting SO offer to help. It shows that they’re ready to participate in family responsibilities. It’s also a good chance to ingratiate themself and have smaller, more intimate conversations.

Before dinner isn’t the ideal time to offer to help. When you arrive you’re on display. You should be prepared to sit and chitchat or sit and smile at chitchat. After dinner is a wonderful time to offer help. The family has gotten to know you, so it’s not like a stranger’s in their kitchen or pantry or wherever all those plates and chairs are stored. Even if the family has help in the way of servers and cleaners, it’s still polite and appropriate to ask if there’s anything you can do.

Have A Nice Time

A happy, relaxed guest is someone people like to be around and won’t dread being around next year or for the years to come. Even if you’re shy you can be friendly. Don’t be afraid to chat with little kids or hard of hearing elderly relatives. The effort will be appreciated as otherwise it will fall on someone else. Don’t be afraid to pet the family cat or dog. People love people who like their pets.

Don’t neglect your Significant Other. If you’re the invitee/visiting SO, remember you were probably invited partly for emotional support; family can be trying. If you’re the inviter (it’s your family) be sure to stay close to and check up on your SO. They don’t know any or many people there and they’re in foreign territory. Not to make family sound like the enemy, but remember to have each other’s back. You’re a team for Thanksgiving dinner. It’s a Thanksgiving partnership. And if all goes well it may be a lifetime partnership, which is what marriage and lifetime romantic relationships are.

From all of us at MillionaireMatch, have a very happy Thanksgiving. And remember, even though it’s not Valentine’s Day it has a lot of romantic potential.