He was not the kind of person you would correct. When I met him I was 28, working on a ranch and in pretty good shape. He was in his mid 60s and I would not have wanted to get in a fight with him.
Friday OT-What did you call me?
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I would never call another person Mom or Dad other than the amazing people who brought me into this world and sacrificed so much for their children.
I refer to my in-laws by their first names. FIL is deceased. I never liked either of them, but even if I did, they cannot take away the name of my actual parents. Husband loved my parents but referred to them by their first names which seems appropriate to me.
I kept my maiden name and MIL refuses to address anything to me with it. There were lots of reasons for it but I find it amusing that she clearly can’t stand me either yet wants to address me with her own last name.
I refer to my in-laws by their first names. FIL is deceased. I never liked either of them, but even if I did, they cannot take away the name of my actual parents. Husband loved my parents but referred to them by their first names which seems appropriate to me.
I kept my maiden name and MIL refuses to address anything to me with it. There were lots of reasons for it but I find it amusing that she clearly can’t stand me either yet wants to address me with her own last name.
The kids know everyone as an Aunt-Uncle
Wife's side of the family is mostly gone. So we've brought everyone in as family
Wife's side of the family is mostly gone. So we've brought everyone in as family
I never referred to my in-laws by any name. if I had to ask my wife about one of them, I would just say your mom or your dad. My wife wasn't especially close with her dad and stepmom. She was closest with her mother.
Her dad was a real piece of work. We went there one time and he was working on an old bread truck trying to convert it into a camper. He was wearing speedo swim trunks and nothing else. He was probably in his late 50s early 60s by then and sharing way too much of his scrawny physique with us, the neighbors, his younger children and anyone else who happened to drive by.
They came to visit us once and I took him fishing. He brought a deep sea fishing rig to fish for bluegills in the town reservoir. I kid you not, this guy had 150-pound test line on a massive reel and was using a treble hook with a huge sinker, and then complaining that he wasn't getting any bites. I told him he had too much gear between him and the fish to tell if he had a bite or not as I reeled in another fish. He could pull stumps out of the lake with that setup and that's not an exaggeration.
When our first was on its way, our daughter insisted that I be "Gammy". Yeah...nope. Most of our granddaughters call me grandma or grandma(first name) when multiple grandparents are around (most of our grandkids have three or four sets of grandparents).
Spouse is "PapaLew"...except for the oldest grandkid, who calls him PapaLoon.
Our kids will never have blood cousins on my side (one sister who won't have kids) so we just consider my cousins kids as their cousins on that side.
We also have some close friends that we think of as family so that works as well.
I call(ed) my in-laws by their first names. Although my FIL doesn't necessarily like to be the center of attention he always likes to be involved in anything interesting that is going on. When we notice this behavior, he is known as Party Mix.
I actually fall into this. Call my wife "mom"
But never ever during sexy time.
Tried to get the kids to call me "sir" but that didn't go over well
I call my MIL and FIL by their first names. Both of my wife's SILs call them Mom and Dad. Both Mrs. Velo and I find that wierd. Part of that could be because I knew them for quite a few years before we got married. However, both SILs knew them for a time before marrying into the family and they immediately changed from names to Mom and Dad.
My SIL wanted her kids to refer to my FIL as Poppa or something like that. He shut that down and said he wanted to be Grandpa. Good for him. That SIL has her kids refer to her mother as Nana. I don't know whose choice that was.
On an unrelated note my sister has an annoying habit of adding the relationship to everyone's name. She'll talk about Uncle John and Cousin Jane rather than just John and Jane or John Doe and Jane Doe. I will occasionally add the first name or last name to a grandparent (Grandpa John or Grandma Doe) but only long enough to differentiate which grandparent I am referring to.
My SIL wanted her kids to refer to my FIL as Poppa or something like that. He shut that down and said he wanted to be Grandpa. Good for him. That SIL has her kids refer to her mother as Nana. I don't know whose choice that was.
On an unrelated note my sister has an annoying habit of adding the relationship to everyone's name. She'll talk about Uncle John and Cousin Jane rather than just John and Jane or John Doe and Jane Doe. I will occasionally add the first name or last name to a grandparent (Grandpa John or Grandma Doe) but only long enough to differentiate which grandparent I am referring to.
It’s easy to do cause you refer to your spouse that way when talking to the kids.
You have enough kids and dogs over the years and get ancient and the percentage keeps dropping on whether the right name comes out. I have called my sons by some of the dogs’ names, even deceased dogs, and of course by their brothers’ names as well. Likewise, have yelled at the dog with either a previous dog’s name or kid’s name.
There is a controversial figure whose name I can never remember, so if I’m discussing him, I just refer to him as “that pissy faced guy” and everyone knows who I mean even if I don’t!
In-laws are first-name basis, until we had kids, then they became Granny and Pops. My MIL calls me "Awesome". No joke. But this is primarily because her other son-in-laws are losers. Let's just say the bar is very low for impressing my in-laws.
My in-laws and "bonus" in-laws are first name. (Husband's parents are divorced and remarried) My husband calls my parents by their first names. Niblings on husband's side call everyone "Grandma/Grandpa [First Name]", except husband's stepdad is Pappy.
I don't think this is weird. Husband's maternal grandparents were alive for over 20 years of our marriage. Grandma died four years ago, Grandpa just celebrated his 95th birrhday this past Monday. (And Grandpa is still fully mentally aware, God bless him) I call(ed) them Grandma and Grandpa.
I have a friend my age that calls her in-laws Mom & Dad, and it's just plain weird.
I don't think this is weird. Husband's maternal grandparents were alive for over 20 years of our marriage. Grandma died four years ago, Grandpa just celebrated his 95th birrhday this past Monday. (And Grandpa is still fully mentally aware, God bless him) I call(ed) them Grandma and Grandpa.
I have a friend my age that calls her in-laws Mom & Dad, and it's just plain weird.
Somewhat along those lines... All of my dad's sisters, while yelling at their kids, always managed to get my dad's name in there when they couldn't get the correct name right off the bat.
We had a BIL named Mike and a cousin Michael (son of my brother). To our family they were big Mike and cousin Michael.
