I am really not sure what to do here. I called them Mr/Mrs for about six months, then by their first names for about a year and a half, and now every time they call me they say Hi it's Mom/Dad...I am not sure if I should call them by their names still or Mom and Dad, and if I even am comfortable with the Mom/Dad thing. Just curious what everyone else is doing.
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well i used to call them by their first names....well, tom's dad at least becuse i used to work with him.....i never called his mother anything, ut referred to her in cards by her first name. now when i write cards to them i put mom and dad....but i havent' spoken it to them yet..... tom calls my parents mr and mrs. it's a tough one.....
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My inlaws asked me to call them Mom and Dad but I find it hard. I call them by their first names but I refer to them as Mom and Dad.
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FH's dad passed away before we met and I don't call his mom anything to her face but if I send her a card I write Mom D-----. FH calls my parents by their fist names, he feels he shouldn't call them Mom/Dad until after we're married.
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It's funny you ask this because I have been talking about this subject a lot lately. FH and I have been dating almost 8 years now and I still call his parents Mr/Mrs. He has always called my parents by their first names because they hate being called Mr/Mrs. Anyway, once we got engaged I was hoping to be able to start calling them by their first names (dont feel close enough to them to call them Mom/Dad) but that doesn't seem possible. To this day when his mom calls our apartment she says 'Hi, this is Mrs. _____' so I am under the impression they want to keep it this way. I just feel stupid calling my FIL's Mr/Mrs. They are going to be family!
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I dont call them anything - WHen i call I'll say hi Mr. or Mrs sometimes - but on a whole - i hope i am never in a situation where I have to .... i dont think I would be comfortable calling them Mom or Dad but I dont want to call them by their first names unless they ask me to first... its something I have been struggling with
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I call his mom Mom but I call his dad by his first name because they're divorced and we don't see FIs dad too often. We're not married yet but I've been calling her Mom for a while now.
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I call them Mom and Dad...we are close, so this is easy for me to do.
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I call FH's parents Mom/Dad but he calls his parents by their first names! It is weird
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This is so tough. I call his stepdad by his first name since it's easy b/c FH does also. I don't call his mom anything really, unless I really have to, then I use her first name. I'm too close to her to call her Mrs. but not close enough to call her Mom. Calling her by her first name also feels too informal. It's so weeeeird. FH calls my parents by their first names, but then I call my dad by his first name anyway (and he IS my real dad).
Too bad you can't really pronounce FMIL, because maybe then I'd call her that!
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This is an actual disagreement between my FI and I. I still call them Mr/Mrs. They never corrected me even after we got engaged. I say its because they arent thrilled with us getting married and he says they just dont know any better. Meanwhile when his ex sees them she calls them by their first names and supposedly they never liked her. He calls my mom by her first name for now.
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i call them by their first names. i can't imagine calling them Mom and Dad - they're not like that!
krwm
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First Names.
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I have an issue too...growing up I was taught that you never call adults by their first names (I guess if they ask you too it would be fine) my parents thought it was disrespectful. So I have a hard time calling my ILs by their first names Plus honestly I feel like it puts a seperation between what is his family and what is mine.
So I dont call them anything really right now! If I refer to either of them (to someone else) I call them my MIL or FIL. I cant wait to start calling them MOm and Dad once we are married but I feel I should wait until then.
I talked to my mom about this and she was so happy that I am going to call them by that. I know that my MOH's mom felt slighted by that idea with her daughter but my mom agrees that if I call them by their first names it keeps them on a different level than my parents and out of respect for them raising the man I am going to marry I dont want to do that!
This is just my situation though! I am also lucky that I adore my ILs!!
Boop2704
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I already call his father Dad and he already calls my parents Mom and Dad.
nylisa
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I would call them Mom & Dad after we are married.
JodiBabe
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Mum & Pop which is how they started signing cards after we got engaged.
MindyL28
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first names. I won't call them mom & dad- I already have a mom & dad! But I can imagine calling them mom & dad when I'm much older.
neen
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Mom and Dad
Moehick
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I call his Dad by his name and his Mom made it clear she likes Mrs.
