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Do you call your in-laws mom and dad?
I call DH's parents Mom and Dad (I have since we were dating.)
I was with a friend the other day and when FIL called. I answered it "Hi Dad"
She was appalled that I called him dad.
Is this weird?[Poll]
Re: Do you call your in-laws mom and dad?
I wouldn't say that it IS weird. I'd say I'd feel weird doing it.
I think it depends on your relationship and familiarity with the ILs in question. I call mine by their first names. Their other DIL calls them Mom & Dad. I think they prefer the latter, but it's just not for me.
NO!
And it kind of icks me out when SIL calls my parents mom and dad. They're not your parents?
FWIW, my husband hardly call his parents mom and dad, so it would be doubly weird for me. They aren't very parental.
SS - I call my FIL "dad," but don't call my MIL "mom."
DH calls my parents mom and dad.
I will call FIL Dad. MIL never.
DH calls my parents mom and dad now, but not initially.
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I try to avoid calling them anything at all. No way to mom and dad, Mr. & Mrs. [ ] is too stiff, but their first names seem too casual (particularly because they're of an older generation than my mom and dad).
My parents call/ed each others' parents mom and dad, and I think that's nice, but I just don't see that ever happening with us.
I find it weird when other people do it, and I would never do it myself.
...they're not your parent. Mother-in-law and father-in-law. The in-law qualifier is there for a reason.. because they're not your parent.
I just call mine by their first names.
I've known them for a long time...they have always been more of a mom and dad to me than my own parents are.
my MIL told me to call her and my FIL by their first names. she passed away a few years ago and my FIL has since hinted that he wouldn't mind being called dad, so i call him dad now.
my dad would love for my husband and my BILs to call him dad, but they call him by his first name.
DH calls my parents mom and dad.
I avoid calling my in laws anything like the plague. I know they would love for me to call them Mom and Dad, and it would mean a lot to DH for me to call them that, but it just seems weird to me.
I normally refer to them as (DH's name)'s mom/dad. I don't think I have directly called them anything since we got married, lol.
He's my fairytale, a dream when I'm not sleeping.
<a href="http://s279.photobucket.com/albums/kk121/behapybride/?action=viewI don't call his parents Mom and Dad, but I do call his Grandparents Grandma and Grandpa (I know that's not your question, but it relates). We don't speak to his father and I call his mother by her first name.
DH calls my Dad by his first name and he calls my Mom Mrs. firstname.
ETA: Both of my parents called their inlaws Mom and Dad. I have always thought that it was funny.
I call DH's Grandparents Grandma and Grandpa too. That's how they introduced themselves to me when I first met them.
Nope because I already have parents. DH and I call each other's parents by their first names.
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I did THIS for the first few years of my marriage. I think MIL wanted me to call them "Mom" and "Dad", but that just weirded me out. So I just didn't address them with any name!
It was actually this past weekend that I called and left a message saying "<MIL's first name>, it's Lucy........." I won't even tell you how many years it took me to get the courage up to do that. Crazy, I know!
(before I would leave a message and say "It's Lucy! Just calling to say blahblahblah")
I agree. My sister in laws husband calls them mom and dad. I can't. My MIL would love if I called her mom.
Ditto. Even my parents would ask if I've spoken to my "mum/dad" in reference to my in laws.
I don't call them mum/dad when talking to other people though, I just say DH's mum/dad in those situations. Truthfully though, I rarely have to expressly state mum/dad when talking to them. I just sometimes say ma/sir, which is common in my culture as well.
Also we don't generally call people much older than us by their first names, it's considered rude.
Both of these. In reference to grandparents. I call his grandparents Grampee, Granddad and Grandmom. I call his mom by her first name, and when his dad was alive, by his first name. I think DH's BIL calls her mom.
DH calls my parents by their first names. He'll call my mom "ma" if he's teasing her.