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What do you call your in-laws?
This is a question posted on another board that I frequent. I find it suprising that so many people have issues with this (and the women on these boards are not newlyweds.)
Both L and I call our respective ILs by their first names. That is, unless we are talking with the kids and then we call them Nana/Grandaddy (ILs) or Grammy/Papa (my last name) (my parents.)
What do you call yours?
Re: What do you call your in-laws?
I call them by their first names but sometimes I call them Mom and Dad. My parents always called their inlaws by their first names so I just do that.
When we refer to them to Ella they will be Mimi and Bubba (named by the first grandchild). Oddly my Mom has been Mimi to my cousins kids (who she acts like the grandmother) so she will be Mimi G my dad doesn't have a "name" yet. He is waiting for Ella to decide (I call him Grandpa for now)
I call my ILs my their first name. Although I'll also call K's dad "sir" which she finds really funny.
K uses my parents first names as well.
But you've met them??
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I do the "sir" thing too. They are old school southern and it is very important to them. It is funny b/c I slip into it immediately and I NEVER do it for anyone else.
I always called them by their first names. More recently, I've started with Mom and Dad sometimes.
C calls my parents and stepparents all by their first names. She calls my grandparents by their grandparent titles though - Gram, Nana, Papa.
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i know my parents would be fine with it if she called them mom and dad, but she's not really comfortable doing that which is fine. she rarely actually calls them anything but when she does she uses their first names.
i call her parents by their first names. her sil makes a point of calling them mom and dad. they've made it clear they don't like it although she persists, so i will continue to call them by their names unless they ask me to do otherwise.
i'm sure we'll refer to all of them as their grandparent name specifically with the kids, but we've got a little while until we get to that point.
I don't know if it's a Italian thing or not, but I grew up with both my parents calling their in-laws mom and dad. I know that's how my parents would like N to address them, but they don't push it and she calls them a combo of mom and dad or their first names. I do the same with her parents.
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interesting, my wife's family is italian and are the opposite. of course, my family in general is much more affectionate outwardly than hers is. hmmm...
As for me, I always struggle with what to call Sylvia's mom. In written correspondence, I call her Mrs. _____. When we're talking in person or on the phone, I try to avoid addressing her by any particular name. We have a great relationship, I just haven't figured out something to call her that we'd both be comfortable with. And I suck at pronouncing her first name.
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On cards and in conversation w/ andrea I call her dad "dad" - but in person i usually refer to him by his first name. Her mom has passed, but I have a feeling if she was still here, I'd call her "mom". I refer to her grandparents as Bubby and Pop (well, Pop has since passed but you know what i mean).
She calls my parent's by their first names and my nana is just "Nana"
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I call my father-in-law by his first name. Until we were married I called him Mr. ______ (which was 6 years after I met him). This was due to his (or W's) comfort though. I grew up in a community that called all adults by their first names so it was really wierd to call him Mr. ________. The only people with that title were teachers. Right before the wedding I asked him if I could call him by his first name because I though people on my side of the family might be a bit uncomfortable if I was that formal with him at our wedding.
W has called my parents by their first names since she met them. She call my grandparents by their grandparent names.
I call ALL her parents by first names. She calls my mom Angie, but doesn't really every say my stepmom and dads names but when she does it's by first name.
I've never met any of her grandparents her moms side is deceased, and her dad's side doesn't support us. When ever she goes to see her grandpa, I never go. I've never met him.
She calls my aunt that I am very close to Aunt B and my great grandma that I'm also super close with Homezgirl. It's a nickname she made for her that just stuck.
But for the most part it's first names. I call everyone in her family by first name. Nothing else seems to flow for me.
I call my in laws my their first names... they seem to like that better. K calls my parents mom and dad. Not sure why it worked out that way. She's just more comfortable doing that than I am.