c.p.W.: Do you call your m-i-l Mom and/or your f-i-l Dad?

HeatherKCT · April 2014

I call them both by their first name.

heyhaylee · April 2014

I call them other names..we don't talk to them or about them much though

bumpuser794640 · April 2014

I call(ed) them both by their first names. FIL passed in August, though.

danigirl7181 · April 2014

HeatherKCT said:
I call them both by their first name.

This

kaylakim · April 2014

We call them their first names too.

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chiboo9 · April 2014

Mom and Dad here. But the step parents are first names, since that's what DH does.

fabk · April 2014

First names

Stina2012 · April 2014

I can't tell you what I call my ILs.

:ar!

babykk · April 2014

First names.

PrimRoseMama · April 2014

Super Special Snowflake: I use their first names.

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new2011mommy · April 2014

I also use their first names.

nalFTW · April 2014

MIL is asshole and FIL is full of shit.

KTZ17 · April 2014

I call my MIL by her first name but my FIL "Pa" because that's what my husband calls him. They're divorced, so I don't feel bad calling one something more intimate than the other. Also I'm confused by what my FIL prefers to be called. He has nicknames that don't seem to relate to his name. For my mil, I have my own mom so I'm not calling her mami. And she annoys me.

Mommy1stTimer · May 2014

First names.

Stacey099 · May 2014

First names. His paternal grandma is the only grandparent alive and I alway calls her grandma.
Half the time DH calls his own mother by her
first name. She responds faster to that than mom.

fieldpetal · May 2014

I call them by their first names but I wish I called them mom and dad.
I love them. :x

Hilaboo86 · May 2014

First names. But they are also PITA and not very "family like"

[Deleted User] · May 2014

First names. I've always thought it was strange to call anyone mom or dad that isn't your mom or dad. I do call my SO's grandmother granny, though, because everyone else does and it just fits.

valstulas · May 2014

FIL is Ray. MIL died long before I met Mr. Vals.

merc5411 · May 2014

First names when we are with them, but we have less than polite names for them at other times.

SMac85 · May 2014

My inlaws get offended if I don't call them mom and dad. My husband uses first names for my parents

danielledunning · May 2014

MIL passed away before I met DH and I've never addressed my FIL as any name. He doesn't really speak English though, so we don't really talk other than " hi, how are you?" DH's grandparents are Mima and Pipo because that's what they are to everyone. DH calls my parents by their first names or makes up random nicknames for them.

fieldpetal · May 2014

Silv3rlining said:

fieldpetal said:

I call them by their first names but I wish I called them mom and dad.
I love them. :x

@fieldpetal - have you asked them about calling them mom/dad or just tried doing it?

They said I can call them whatever I want and feel comfortable with. I call them mom and dad in my head sometimes... Just haven't quite felt comfortable enough to say it out loud yet. My SIL doesn't and she's been their DIL a lot longer...maybe that's why. I dodge it by calling them Grandpa and Mimi.

lancomechica · May 2014

They have nicknames that everyone calls them in their language. I never call them their first names...I did once and it seemed really awkward.

Bmore721 · May 2014

First names for MIL, FIL, and their respective partners. My parents want DH to call them Mom and Dad, but he thinks it is weird and refuses.

hollandmama · May 2014

I call my MIL mom, but when I'm speaking to other people outside DHs family I call her by her first name otherwise they confuse my mom and his LoL

RoRo10733 · May 2014

First names or Grandma and Papa. It never dawned on me to call in in-laws mom and dad. I only recently started using mom and dad for my own parents. I always used their first names.

jeng100 · May 2014

Absolutely not. I call them by their first names, or Nona and Papa now that they are grandparents.

spb27 · May 2014

I only call them mom/dad or grandma/grandpa although I mostly do it when I need to get their attention. My mil was upset that right after we got married I wasn't automatically saying "hi mom" when I spoke to her on the phone or walked into her house. Of course I don't do that with my own parents. I just say hi. So crazy.