what will you call your in-laws after you are married?

what will you call your in-laws after you are married?

I have been talking to several friend who recently were married and they continue to call their inlaws Mr. & Mrs. I think that is very formal. What do you think?

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I still call my FILs Mr& mrs because I just cant break the habit... it's hard!! But I keep getting yelled at for that, so i dont really call them anything... how dumb am I? I need to get over it!

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My MIL insists that I call her 'Mom' I dont feel comfortable doing that. I have a Mom already. I tried saying 'Mrs...' and then she makes me say 'mom mom mom
over and over again. Its annoying. I think you should call them what ever you feel comfortable with. At this point, I dont call them anything, I just start talking and hope they look at me LOL

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That is funny that you say that b/c I don't call them anything either. But how long can that last?

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Posted by Brideoct05

That is funny that you say that b/c I don't call them anything either. But how long can that last?

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Well, I'm married 3 mos and I still don't know what to call them!!! Well, Jim's stepdad I can comfortable call by his first name because DH does, MIL.... I still don't really call her anything!!

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im so happy im not the only one who doesn't call them anything!! it's nice to know im not alone!!

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Now I call them 'mom' and 'pop' so I guess after we are married I'll call them the same thing

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I will call them by their first names as I do now... I have a mom and dad, they are and always will be Fh's mom and dad, I would not expect him to call my parent's mom and dad either though.

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HELP!!!!!!!!!!! I really don't know what I'm going to call them. I'll probably still call them Mr. & Mrs.


I so need help with this one. I do NOT wanna call them Mom & Dad, and they are not 1st name people. I've known them since I was 13 years old.

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Probably by their first names. I don't know for sure though

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God i've been calling mine mom and dad for about 5 years now!!

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I've always called FMIL 'mom' but then again I do that to my close friend's mothers also. Calling them by their first name seems weird to me and Mr. Mrs. seems to formal. But I guess it also depends on how comfortable you are with them. I say call them by what makes you comfortable not by what you think you should call them.

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i've called them mom and dad for the last year at least. its funny b/c my fh doesn't know what to call my parents so he doesn't call them anything.

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FH calls my parents by their first names because early one they told him to....FH's parents are odd birds...I still call them MR/MRS and it appears that they LIKE it this way...guess I'll wind up calling them NOTHING too!

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I also think that Mr. & Mrs. is too formal for what essentially is your family. I call mine by their first names, don't feel comfortable calling them 'mami and papi' (spanish - Mommy and Daddy). There's no short and sweet 'mom and pop' in spanish! But even if there was, I would feel odd calling them this since I call my parents this. My FH will call my parents by their first names too.

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I have used their first names since I met them and prolly will continue to - as with you gals, I already have a mom and dad (actually, that's what I call my g-ma and g-pa ) and my parents are either ma, mommy, daddy, da, whatever lol

It's kinda funny tho, when FMIL refers to her husband, FFIL, she refers to him as 'dad' (when dad gets home, blah, blah) and I think it's kinda funny to me lol

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I so need help with this too! We're not married yet, but I feel like I should start breaking the habit of calling them Mr. and Mrs. because I'd rather call them by their first names. I just feel so weird using first names! I definitely can't call them Mom and Dad because like some of you ladies, I want to reserve that for my own parents. Ugh!

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i dont call mine anything either. they sign cards and stuff with their first names, but i still cant call them that. (esp since they barely talk to ME!)