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What do you call your in-laws?

I been with my h for almost 6 years now and have a good relationship with them but I don't really call them anything...I feel too formal calling them mr.&mrs....but not really sure if mom and dad is what I'm comfortable with...they never brought it up and I never heard my sister in law call them anything either?! Just wondering what other people do? 
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Re: What do you call your in-laws?

  • haha. I call them by their first names! I guess on occasion I've said Ma, jokingly.
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  • I call them mom and dad or by their first names. Just depends on the situation.. But I am totally comfortable with them. We are very very close. I consider them parents. And they dont consider me just the girl their son married. they consider me a daughter. I got EXTREMELY lucky with the in-laws. They are amazing!!

     

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  • I call MIL by her first name. I don't really call FIL anything....but would probably jokingly call him Dad randomly and see his reaction to it!

    FIL has the same name as my H...as does my Brother, and my Dad....lol

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  • I don't really call them anything to their face, either...I guess I just talk to them without a salutation!  In reference I'd say "H's mom/dad" or use their first names.
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    I call them mom and dad or by their first names. Just depends on the situation.. But I am totally comfortable with them. We are very very close. I consider them parents. And they dont consider me just the girl their son married. they consider me a daughter. I got EXTREMELY lucky with the in-laws. They are amazing!!

    this!  except i don't think i've ever called them mom/dad, always by their first name.  i love my new in-laws :)

  • H's "dad" is easier, because he's his mom's 3rd husband and H calls him by his first name, so I do, too. And I try to avoid calling his mom anything, but when I do it's by her first name.

    However- H still calls my parents "Mr. & Mrs." ;p 

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  • I call his mother Pat, both of our fathers are deceased

    I don't think I've ever heard hubby call my mother anything.  Now that I think of it, he just looks directly at her and speaks.  LOL

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  • MIL I usually call her mom and have for a while now unless I'm talking to other people then I call her by her first name. FIL I call Pops because dad sounded so weird even H agreed. And then H's stepmom I just call her by name.
  • I call H's parent's by their first name.. maybe down the road it'll be mom and dad.. who knows.. but for now first names. H is the same way with my mom...
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  • This is really awkward because MIL wants me to call her Mom, but I don't feel comfortable doing so. We also have an odd relationship. I don't feel like she warmed up to me until H & I got engaged. I try not to call them anything, otherwise it's Mr/Mrs. K.

    H is totally comfortable calling my parents Mom & Dad.

    This is actually one of the reasons I'm looking forward to having kids because then they will just be grandma and grandpa (or whatever they want to be called).

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  • I don't call them anything. But if I were, I would call them by their first names.

  • To them directly I call them by their first names. My MIL and I dont have a good relationship. She still sees me as competition and I'm taking her son away from her. She's nice to my face and talks about me behind my back. So I definitely don't call her mom.

    If I'm talking to H I call them "Your mom and Dad"

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  • I call them by their first names, but I rarely actually call them by name in conversation. I am comfortable with them, however I don't think I could ever call them mom and dad. Once we have kids we will refer to them as their grandparent names anyways :)
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  • first names...always. I don't feel near comfortable enough to call them mom and dad, and they signed a card for me with thier first names, so thats what I am sticking to
  • I call his parents by their first names. I also do that with his grandparents. I am comfortable with all of them and love them all but I cannot call them mom, dad and grandma, grandpa. Those are names I can only use for my family because of how special those words are to me and they have to earn the right to be called that. 
  • Their first names.  When we got engaged I jokingly called his dad "dad" and it was awkward!
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