If there were children from these exes there'd be no question of needing to maintain relationships but there aren't any.
About leaving past mistakes lying around - each of these relationships went on over a number of years which explains why the rest of my family feels connected to these women. If I'd ever had a short relationship or fling or whatever then it might have been inappropriate to introduce the fam.
Anyway, it seems like I should just calmly mention to my parents that I'd rather not know the next time they feel the need to share that sort of thing.
Who else has family that maintain their relationships with your ex/es? Do they also bring up ex-news in conversation? How do they react when you finally tell them that you don't want to know?
Missionaries... Cultural effing vandals - went to places like Papua New Guinea to tell the natives to stop living and believing the way they had for thousands of years 'cause the Big G's here now...
Well... As it happens, in the loosest sense, I guess I'm a missionary too - for the Church of the SubGenius. Look it up - it's cool! Just costs $US20 to become an Ordained Minister and then you can preach whatever crap you like!
RE: DO YOU BELIEVE THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD?
I believe that all-caps is for morons. Emoticons are right up there too.