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Do you call your Inlaws, Mom & Dad??

post #1 of 24
8/27/07 at 1:27pm
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i think ive came to that point where.. i should call them that.. theyve look at me like their daughter.. not a daughter in law.. but one of their own and i think that is so sweet. I dont talk to my dad anymore and well my mom i dont even call her mom since i was younger and for other reasons.. but I think i am. Ill feel shy but ill have to make that first step.
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post #2 of 24
8/27/07 at 1:31pm
yeah... i do.. have for quite a while even though i get mad at them
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post #3 of 24
8/27/07 at 1:34pm
nope - and I doubt that I ever will.
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post #4 of 24
8/27/07 at 2:05pm
no i don't, i had a mom she passed away, no one else gets that title in my world
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post #5 of 24
8/27/07 at 2:29pm
EWWWWWWWWWWWWW.... Never, not ever.... No way.....


But I am happy for you, Diana!
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post #6 of 24
8/27/07 at 2:31pm
Nope, but Mike doesn't call his mother "mom" either, so it would be really awkward. He does usually call *my* parents mom and dad though.
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post #7 of 24
8/27/07 at 3:23pm
My MIL will never win the MOM title from me - no way.

I don't think I will ever call the in-laws Mom or Dad b/c they were Marty and Cindi to me for 4 years before hubby and I got married and that is what I am used to. It would be weird to all the sudden call them mom and dad.
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post #8 of 24
8/27/07 at 3:24pm
Yes... I call them Mom and Dad occasionally, more often than not though I call them Leroy and Jenny. I don't have any akwardness calling them Mom and Dad, it just depends on what slips out of my mouth.
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post #9 of 24
8/27/07 at 3:41pm
yup, Mike calls my grandparents grandma and grandpa but not mom and dad to my parents
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post #10 of 24
8/27/07 at 5:40pm
No, don't think I will ever call MIL mom. She's a fine MIL, but she is KYLE'S mom, KWIM?
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post #11 of 24
8/27/07 at 5:44pm
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Originally Posted by Dawn
Nope, but Mike doesn't call his mother "mom" either, so it would be really awkward. He does usually call *my* parents mom and dad though.
What does he call her? Why doesn't he call her mom?
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post #12 of 24
8/27/07 at 9:35pm
DH's parents are older - like my grandparents' generation - so I just call them by their names. Or sometimes "Grandpa and Grandma" - depends on who I'm talking to.
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post #13 of 24
8/27/07 at 10:46pm
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Originally Posted by tailwaggers
What does he call her? Why doesn't he call her mom?
He calls her by her first name. She abandoned him when he was 4 and she doesn't have one motherly instinct in her.
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post #14 of 24
8/27/07 at 11:40pm
I do. My mom is "ma" and my dad was "daddy" so I didn't already have a "mom" and "dad." I think I would call them that anyway though.
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post #15 of 24
8/27/07 at 11:43pm
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Originally Posted by Dawn
He calls her by her first name. She abandoned him when he was 4 and she doesn't have one motherly instinct in her.
She definitely doesn't deserved to be called mom. How sad!
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post #16 of 24
8/28/07 at 9:44am
No. I have a mom and dad that I'm very close to. I call them Brian and Esther.
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post #17 of 24
8/28/07 at 12:39pm
Nope. No way. I had a Mom & Dad & they are gone.
I call them by their first names.
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post #18 of 24
8/28/07 at 1:53pm
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hmm, well yeah it will feel awkward for me but i think once im past that feeling i will be oka.. theyve given me no reason at all to feel this either.. My stepmom i do call her mom and of course my dad.. my real mom even though things between us are good i dont call her anything.. and with that i have no idea why..
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post #19 of 24
8/29/07 at 10:21pm
DH's parents are divorced and both remarried. His dad and step mom I call by their first names and as for dh's mother--- well that is another story!! To her face and in front of others I call her by her first name. You don't want to know what I call her behind her back!!!!
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post #20 of 24
8/30/07 at 8:50am
No, I call them Brian and Peg.
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post #21 of 24
9/7/07 at 2:05pm
Nope, I call them Larry's Mom and Step Dad, now his dad, I do call dad, just because we are close
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post #22 of 24
9/21/07 at 4:06pm
My mother-in-law, yes, father-in-law I don't really talk to all that often. But I wouldn't be opposed to calling him "dad"...
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post #23 of 24
3/16/08 at 5:27pm

Re: Do you call your Inlaws, Mom & Dad??

nope i dont, and i never will
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post #24 of 24
3/18/08 at 1:33am

Re: Do you call your Inlaws, Mom & Dad??

Yes, I do. I asked them what they would prefer to be called and they said Mom & Dad, if I didn't mind. They don't like having the "kids" call them by their first name (although most of them do - not their kids, but the kids spouses, I mean). Heck, I have lots of Mom's! All of my best friends (3 of them), I call their mother's Mom and they call mine the same (or by her first name).

IMHO, calling my MIL mom takes nothing away from how close I am to my mom. And my mom is fine with it. She calls my grandmom (stepdad's mom) Mom, too. It's just a name to us - has nothing to do with how we feel about them. And if it makes my in-laws more comfortable, that's fine with me! Besides, I am pretty close to my MIL. She's a great lady!
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