Shall we go!! to
Your joke about meeting your parents, that’s the same old-fashioned look.
and...
You missed another aspect: The opinion of the culprit itself.
She is a potential bride.
Here is our grandmother, who for 80 years, told.She was friends with a guy (and at that time only friends, did not sleep together).
He invited her for the first time, and his family gathered at the table.
And then the mother of our young man began her speeches.In the house she is the main, money all to give her, and she will decide who to buy, and who will break.
Then the bride said proudly:"They haven’t caught anymore to spit!"
And went to the exit, and the bridegroom at the mother's permission to ask gathered, to run or not allowed.
There is no love, and it is for the best.