They probably thought they were still dating. OP stated that the person she brought to dinner was her 'new' boyfriend.

Just because the OP was dating a new person doesn't mean that she hasn't broken up with her ex for a while. The parents probably knew about the breakup, liked the ex and was trying to play re-matchmaker without knowing she had already moved on?

#12: Yeah, sometimes parents are douchebags.

I think it's pretty rude of your parents to invite your ex (and I assume they knew you two had broken up) unless you guys happened to break it off on great terms and are actually still friends.

My question is why on earth the ex would agree to come over. He knew they were broken up and that it'd be awkward. As far as desperate-plans-to-get-OP-back go, family dinners are pretty likely to do more harm than good...

It was very ex-citing.

I don't think it was too ex-quisite.

It didn't go the way she ex-pected

It was definitely ex-tra awkard for OP.

It wasn't ex-actly what everyone had in mind.

I hope OP will leave a follow-up to ex-plain what happened.

This thread is ex-asperating.

I'm ex-tremely amused. I hope the parents had a good ex-cuse.

the amount of downvotes per comment are respectively ex-ponential

I would love if OP left an ex-planation.

I can't believe this thread actually ex-ist

Ex-plain to me why the puns are so funny

The awkwardness sounds like it was OVER 9000.

Vegeta's scouter off the charts

I agree, some surprises end poorly... communication is key to avoiding mating ritual death matches