1. When your parent discovers the world of online dating.
2. When your parent manages to get more dates than you do.
3. When either of you mentions going on a third date with anyone, and you both have to pretend that nothing important happened.
4. When your parent starts acting like the two of you are bachelor friends.
5. When your parent dates people who are at all close in age to you.
6. When they think it would be fun to "try speed dating together."
No thanks, speed dating can do bad all by itself.
7. When your parent introduces you to someone they're dating... and you don't approve of them.
8. When your mom insists that you come along for "girls' night."
9. When your parent tells you that marriage is not all it's cracked up to be.
10. When your parents ask you for relationship advice.
11. When your mom always wants to talk...about how the guy she's seeing never calls her back.
12. When your dad grows a moustache, and dashes your dreams of being more attractive with a moustache.
13. When your parents make the same dating mistakes that you're currently making.
14. Seeing your parent try to flirt with anyone... and realizing that you have the same ridiculous moves they do.
15. When you realize that you and your mom talk to each other mostly about your cats.
16. When you tell your parent to break it off with someone for doing something that you tolerate all the time.
17. Whenever anyone weird insists that you and your mom "could be sisters."
18. When you see them struggle, and you realize that there is no magic age where dating starts becoming easier.
19. When you're comparing dating horror stories and you realize, perhaps for the first time in your life, that your parents really DO understand.
