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QOTD - 10/11/12

KBabe076KBabe076 member
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in June 2012 Weddings

Hey it's 10, 11, 12! haha 

I saw this on the Married Life board and it got me thinking...What do you call your inlaws?  

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  • G2SoccerTazG2SoccerTaz member
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    I either call my MIL by her first name or H's mom. I just do not feel comfortable calling her just mom.
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  • KBabe076KBabe076 member
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    I think I may have just assumed that most people call their in-laws mom and dad because my parents do. But I call H's parents mom and dad. They were comfortable with me doing it about a year or so after H and I started dating.  I wasn't comfortable with it until around when we got married (about 2 1/2 yrs later) because my parents are still alive and I have never called anyone else mom and dad.  I don't really even think twice about it now. And my parents don't get offended by it. 
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  • franklissafranklissa
    I call them by their first names.
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  • mrsodonnell12mrsodonnell12
    First names for sure. FIL would totally laugh if I started calling him dad.
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  • tyleet87tyleet87 member
    I can't vote since I'm totally awkward and still try not to call them anything! I'm just horribly weird and I'm not 100% comfortable calling them by their first names but Mr. & Mrs. is too formal. I would also never call them mom and dad although MIL said I could. My parents would be offended. Although H calls my mom "mama". He always says it very fondly and I like it. :) He started calling her that on his own but I just can't do the same, I'm not comfortable. Help!
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    imagetyleet87:
    I can't vote since I'm totally awkward and still try not to call them anything! I'm just horribly weird and I'm not 100% comfortable calling them by their first names but Mr. & Mrs. is too formal. I would also never call them mom and dad although MIL said I could. My parents would be offended. Although H calls my mom "mama". He always says it very fondly and I like it. :) He started calling her that on his own but I just can't do the same, I'm not comfortable. Help!

    why do you find things awkward?

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  • tyleet87tyleet87 member

    I have no idea. When there is no other way to and I have to refer to them in conversation I will use their first names but it's only been about 3 times in 3 years. I don't know. I'm just weird.

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  • KBabe076KBabe076 member
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    imagetyleet87:
    I can't vote since I'm totally awkward and still try not to call them anything! I'm just horribly weird and I'm not 100% comfortable calling them by their first names but Mr. & Mrs. is too formal. I would also never call them mom and dad although MIL said I could. My parents would be offended. Although H calls my mom "mama". He always says it very fondly and I like it. :) He started calling her that on his own but I just can't do the same, I'm not comfortable. Help!

    This was so me the first few years of dating!! It just didn't feel right calling them mom/dad and mr.&mrs. felt weird and so did their first names so I just tried to avoid it. 

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  • SoSaysTaraSoSaysTara member
    I always use first names.. but weirdly.. I call his grandparents Grandma and Grandpa!  Haha.. I think it's because EVERYONE calls them that.. Oh I also call MIL Nana and FIL Papa when talking to the nieces and nephews (or around them) because that's what THEY call them.
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  • aneubaueaneubaue member
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    I go back and forth between calling my MIL Mom and by her first name.  I don't really know why.  FIL I have only ever called by his first name and will probably never change from that.  Part of the reason behind that is because DH hardly calls him Dad so I don't feel the need to either.  He can also be a bit of an a-hole towards DH and I at times so I am sure that is part of why we don't really call him Dad. When DH's Grandma was alive I always called her Grandma, but I think that was because everyone else did and what she enjoyed.
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