What do you call your inlaws?

[Taz_Zoee]

Again, I'm not married, but I refer to Bruce's mom as Carol. In cards and stuff I do write mom and sign it from both of us. His father is deceased.
I don't think Bruce calls my parents anything. LOL

[Glacier]

I call Stuart's Dad by his first name. Even Stuart usually calls him that! He calls my parents by their first names as well. He hasn't spoke to his mother in close to 20 years. On the rare occasions she is brought up, he calls her by her first name, usually with some colorful adjectives around it.

He sort of has a step-mother. His Dad is divorced from his second wife too, but they are good friends and still keep in touch. We both call her by her first name too.

My Mom always called my grandma(my Dad's mom), Mom. It confused me to no end when I was a kid.

[pitc9]

I call my inlaws by their first names, mostly because we go out and party with them, so they're more like friends!
Rick calls my parent's Mr. and Mrs. X.
He want's SO badly to call them by their first names, but he says it's too weird. We've been together for 14 years, you'd think by NOW he'd be able to!

[DJFyrewolf36]

John calles my parents mom and dad...not that they have always liked it lol. I usually end up calling my MIL mom, even though John tends not to oddly enough.

[cyber-sibes]

First time around, I tried to avoid the issue.
Second time around I asked my MIL what she would like me to call her (what a novel idea, huh?) Turned out she asked me to call her by her full first name - Florence- because she loved it yet everyone shortened it to Flo, which she wasn't crazy about. I was very happy to address her as she wished! I called my FIL by his first name, too.

[AdoreMyDogs]

I love my inlaws, I really lucked out in the inlaw department. I don't feel comfortable calling anyone other then my mother "mom", so I call my mother in law either by her first name (Bonnie) or her title (Nana). More often, though, I call her Nana since Quinn's getting older and I want to make sure she knows who Nana is. My father in law's name is Ed, but everyone calls him Daddy Eddie...even his grandkids, so we, also, call him Daddy Eddie.

[CountryWolf07]

I don't have any in-laws, but I call Mike's mom by her last name, I just feel odd calling her by her first name.

[BitsyNaceyDog]

I had to come back to this thread after seeing my sister last night. My sister's getting married in a couple months and last night was her bridal shower. I was almost surprised (but knowing my sister, not too surprised) how easily she calls EVERYONE "Mom". She of corse calls our mom "Mom", she calls my M-I-L "Mom", she calls her future M-I-L "Mom", and she calls her future step M-I-L "Mom". Last night was getting a little confusing with so many of her "moms" in the same room, she had to call all of them "Mom" followed by their last name.

[gini]

"DEAD"

Donna, you are just too much!

[K9karen]

A long time ago when I was engaged, I fell in love with his parents and visa versa (fell outta love w/him). As a joke one day, when his mother didn't hear me talking to her, I yelled "Maaaaaaaaa"! and she loved it. So then I called his dad "Paaaaaaa". They were so wonderful to me and sometimes I wish I kept in contact with them.The ex avoided calling my parents anything (or at least anything he could repeat) It was NOT a mutual admiration society.

[Jessika]

I feel weird calling them mom and dad, and I feel weird calling them by their first names, so I just call them Mr. and Mrs. H. I got it from hubby since he started calling my parents from day 1 Mr. and Mrs. W, so I kinda stole it from him. We still call each others' parents by that also.

[chocolatepuppy]

For many years after I married I avoided calling them anything. Eventually I called them by their names. I always wrote mom and dad on cards and such but never called them that. My MIL is gone now. I still call his dad by his name.

[Edwina's Secretary]

In the beginning I called them Mr and Mrs. ____ as that is how I was raised...and waited for them to tell me ..."please, call us_____. I finally realized they might ask me to call them something I wasn't comfortable saying so I switched to Walt and Wanda.

[lizbud]

Never thought about this before but, I guess I called MIL nothing at all.
Husband's dad had already passed away so it was just her.When talking
about my MIL, she was referred to as Nana & my Mom was Grandma (surname) Husband called my mom by her first name.

[RobiLee]

I think this is a good question. It seems most of us did the same thing at first and tried to avoid calling them anything. I finally started calling my in-laws by their first names and also mom and dad. It just seemed to depend on the situation and the mood.