How do you adress or call your parents in law

hello Bebs... i also call my mother in law the way my husband call her...and i we call her 'mama'... i respect her and love her the way i love my parents and she's just so nice to me treating me like her own child... maybe it also have something to do with the culture...

Hello Bebs. In China, it is our traditional custom to call our parents-in-law father and mother the way we call our own parents. It is considered to be rude to call them by their names. I always call my in-laws the way I call my parents. They are as dear as my own parents.

Hi Bebs. I've never really been comfortable calling my in-laws mom and dad. To me, that is reserved for my parents only. So, I've always addressed them by their names. I did call my late father-in-law pa a few times, but only when we'd be joking around. Otherwise I'd call him by his name. Happy mylotting!

Hi, Bebs! My hubby has no problem calling my parents 'mom' and 'dad', but I still feel a bit awkward calling his parents that way. I seldom call them especially my father-in-law and only take the chance to talk to them when they are looking at me. I guess I am still not used to it.

In our country we address our in-laws the way our spouses address them. if they call them mom and dad that's also how we will be calling them-- a show of love and respect...

Hi Bebs, I am a Chinese girl that I would not call the elders or seniors by their name directly as it will be judged as impoliteness. It is fine to call the peer by their name even though they are older than me. I learnt the western culture in my campus, it is quite easy to understand the culture difference from different country. Just like somebody can not understand why the the Chinese relatioinship is so complicated to address, why the simple thing will become complex?. I don't like the red tape here. As I go outside for study, when I came back home, I always can not distinguish who is who, how can I call them. It is really annoying that you should address them correctly otherwise they will consider that you are not well educated.. Have a nice day.

To each his own really! Here in India we call our in-laws as mummy and daddy (ma & papa)…but then daughter-in-laws are also to be treated as the daughter of the house. You see, India traditionally has the system of joint family where married men stay with their parents and kids grow under the guidance of grandparents. So its kind of difficult that you are staying with your in-laws regularly and for so long yet you don’t called them ma & papa…calling by name is of course out of question. We don’t call any elder by their name.

Like you I too address them the same way that my husband would address them i.e. Mom and Papa.

I call my MIL "Mama" because that's what my husband calls her. I call my own mother "Mom(my)" so there wasn't much of a problem there, no confusion. When I was younger I had a hard time calling older people by their first name as they would sometimes insist. The inhibition goes away as I get closer to them. In the Philippines, we normally use terms of respect for those older than us and that's why it's harder to get used to the first name thing. If somebody's older, we use "Ate" or "Kuya", and "Tita" or "Tito" for people our parents' age.

We also address our parents in law the way our husbands call them. We treat parents in law as true parents as well as they treated us their children too. I couldn't imagine how my husband, would feel hearing me calling his parents by their names. No offense however to those who do, maybe they have reasons for doing so or they are just used to doing it.

My husbands parents are divorced and have been for many many years, his father has since remarried so I call his both his father and his step mother by their first names. I used to also call his mother by her first name up until a few years back and now I call her mom. i am not sure why it took so long for me to call her mom but it just felt weird to call someone else other than my own mother mom, now it sounds weird to call her by her first name. As for my husband he calls my mom by her first name and I think he always will not because he is disrespecting her but that is just how their relationship is.

I call my in-laws by the same names that I call my own parents. I call them mom and dad. In turn, they also treat me like one of their own children. We accept each other as family.

Well, both my husband's parents are gone now and I never got the chance to meet his dad. I had called my husband's mom, mom. Actually the minute she had heard that her son and I were engaged she told me that she loved me as a daughter and she would be honored if I call her mom. (she never had a daughter of her own). My husband calls my parents mom and dad. My sister-in-law always called my mother-in-law by her first name and I always cringed when she called her by her given name.

here in our country its a tradition and a "law"(meaning should be always done) that our spouse's parents should be called just like the way they call their parents. if we do not call them like our spouse's do, its like disrespecting our parents in law and not accepting them whole heartedly. but if you don't like your parents in law, you can call them in any names that you want, behind their backs, they will not know it anyway.hahaha! just kidding!

I call them by their names, they are not my real parents so its not disrespectful to say their given names.

Hi there Bebs, Like you I call my in-laws the way my husband call them. It's Mama and Papa. My husband also calls my parents the way I call them. I just don't know if ever I can call them with their first name. This is not acceptable in our country. Take care and have fun myLotting red_amethyst

I refuses to call by MIL Mama so I called her Miss Hilda. Mt children basically called her that too but on occasions did call her Grandma. She was not nice to me.

My husband is american and I call his mom "momma" but I call his stepmom and stepdad by their first names also. Like you I don't feel good about calling my in-laws by their first names. I kind of feel that it's disrespectful eventhough it's okay with them. Maybe they're the ones who mind being called mom or dad? I don't know...but my MIL doesn't seem to mind.

Hi, Of course, I won't call my parent in law by their names. I have to pay them a respect and for Chinese culture, we will still call them "dad" and "mom". So this is what I call my parents in law. Be it what,they are my husband's parents and also part of my parents and part of my family members.

called them mom and dad .that why we call them parents in law,