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Does your DH call your parents....
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No, we don't do that. But my parents both do with my grandparents, on both sides.
We also don't say Mr. X and Mrs. X. We just use first names for the parents.
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he calls mine mom and dad but i call his by their first names. his grandma (nan) has been trying to get me to call her "nan" lately but now it feels weird to switch after all these years! agh!
i write "mom and dad" on cards and things too though.
Nope. But my mom is a B!tch, so I wouldn't even dream of him calling her mom.
And his mom is crazy, so while it wouldn't be a stretch for me, I don't call his parents Mom and Dad.
No, we call our parents Grandma, Grandpa, Nana & Papa. It's important to us that Jackson doesn't refer to them by their first names, so we figured we would start now to get us in the habit when Jackson begins talking.
No. He doesn't really call them anything. He doesn't have much opportunity to call them by the first names because when he's talking to me he calls them "your parents". When he's talking to them he doesn't say their names unless he asks them a question, then he just walks up to one of them and asks.
I call MIL and FIL by their first names.
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THIS! And like others..I do write mom and dad on gifts and in cards to make it easier.
I think it's a generational thing. My parents referred to both my grandparents as mom and dad as did all their friends with their respective in laws. Very few of my friends in my age bracket do the same.
I actually would like to do it and have my husband do it, but it's really weird to start this up after 3+ years of marriage. For now he calls them Mr. and Mrs. _____. It just sounds awkward to me.
In conversation I can DH's parents Mom and Dad, but not to their face.
My DH can't call my dad anything! There is only a 10 year age gap between the two of them, so he calls my dad by his formal name (not his nickname, not "jr" what everyone in his family calls him). No one uses my dad's formal name, so it's kind of funny to me. Every year my dad comes to visit, DH goes through all the names he can call him, but "Dad, jr, and sly, fred" are definately out!
We both call each others parents by their first names. I call TJ's grandparent's Grandma and Grandpa though. I also sign cards "to Mom" for his mom.
I agree with Nykola that I think it's a generational thing. My dad's parents and my mom's dad all died before I was 4, so all I have to go on is my Grandma. But all of my aunt's husbands and my dad call her Mom/Grandma.
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No and it weirds me out when people do this, or expect others to. I have my own parents and he has his. I do have nicknames for them (insert giggle) but not Mom and Dad.
My BIL had a girlfriend a few years back and he would try to get DH to call her grandma "grandma". Hello, its not his grandma and its not yours either. The girlfriend would also call the IL's Mom and Dad. They were bothered by it and told me they would feel more comfortable if it came from me than her as I was married to their son, but still it felt wrong to them.
To each their own though.
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Exactly this. The reason I asked it because my MIL has "issues" with me not calling her Mom. Well lady, you ain't my mom! Back off!
Not really. He has called my mom by mom a few times but mostly it's a joking tone. He doesn't really call them by name either. Weird. My mom would love if Ryan called her mom all the time. He has been part of our family for 11 years.
I only call his parents mom and dad if I am referring to them like "did you talk to mom and dad?" when I talk to them I call them by name.