Less at stake on this one, but I had a friend in college whose father was a business owner. He was stuck with some database software that all his customer records were locked in; he wanted to migrate but had no way out other than copying them all over by hand. Up until one weekend when his daughter brought home her boyfriend, who dad had regarded as a dirty hippie up until then. Turns out dirty hippie was a pretty good hacker and in the course of a few hours, he wrote a program to export dad's database into a usable format.

Moral: your significant other may not be impressed by your hacking skills, but you might win the family over for life in a few hours.

I am guessing the daughter was less impressed by the event? I mean, she went out of her way to find someone her parents disliked, and it turns out he is just what his father was looking for... :)

I realize it was a tongue in cheek comment (at least interpreted that way), but that was a serendipitous opportunity for the young lady's boyfriend. I know I've had several such opportunities with my now in laws. Regardless of the differences of opinions, nothing wins over people more than just helping when help is needed.