The quality of romantic relationships that parents maintain has an impact on their children. Although there is strong evidence that shows that parental couple relationships influence relationship development among African American emerging adults, there is a deficit of research that seeks to understand the experiences and influences of parental relationships. This phenomenological study identifies how African American emerging adults experience and find meaning from their parental romantic relationships. Results suggest that African American emerging adults develop both positive and negative perceptions about romantic relationships from their parents, which affect the way these adults perceive, develop, and maintain their own romantic unions. This study also suggests that African American emerging adults find similar experiences in their relationship quality, mate choice, and/or personal or mate characteristics and personality traits as their parents.