What do you call your in laws?

I call my in-laws by their names aswell, I always get a complaint from FIL on Fathers day when I dont sign his card, my response every year is "but you arent my Dad".

Both my sets of grandparents died when I was quite young but can only ever remember my parents referring to them as Grandma and Grandad or very occassionally by their names when they phoned them.

I use their names. Lovely though they are, they are not my mum and dad, so I would feel silly calling them that. Also, I'd been calling them by their names for years before we got married so it would be weird to change.

My mum's parents both died before she married my dad, so no idea what he would have called them, but she always addressed dad's parents by their names.

I use their names. Both my Mum and Dad called their in-laws Mum and Dad (or variations thereof).

We use first names for the inlaws, or now that P is here their grandparent name.

I call them by their names - would not feel right at all calling them anything else! My parents called their in laws by their names as well.

I agree with this - I call H's grandparents "Grandma" and "Grandad/Grandpa" and similarly he calls my grandparents the same names I do. Mind you my paternal grandmother is "Ba", not just to me but to everyone, all my friends as well as H!

I also call H's aunties/uncles "Aunty Jane" and so on. Just a personal/possibly cultural thing but I'd feel horribly rude calling them by their first names. When I was growing up I called everyone older than me 'auntie' or 'uncle' so for me it'd be weird NOT to. It's different with 'mum' and 'dad' because I guess you only really have one mum and one dad whereas it's normal to have lots of aunties and uncles and more than one grandma/grandad etc.

By their names. I'm not sure about my parents as both sets of grandparents died before I was born except one nan who died when I was little so I cant remember.

I call mine by their first names, but I do remember when I was little my parents would call their in-laws Mum and Dad. Must be a generational thing

Oh, to add - I call H's grandmother 'Granny'. To me that's just her name ?

That's a point actually... most of the time when I'm talking to them, the kids are around so they're referred to as Nanny & Poppa anyway.

It's un mentionable on here.

That's quite sweet of your OH though!! ?

I call my PIL by their names, it would seem odd to call them anything else. Bur saying that, OH's grandfather is known as "Poppa" and I call him Poppa not his first name. Hmmmm.

My parents always called their PIL 'mum' and 'dad' too.....maybe it is a generation thing!

I call my MIL and PIL by their first names. H does for mine too. We recently discussed mother day's cards as he asked about putting my name on his card. I didn't think about adding his name, just put my name on my mum's card. It would feel a bit weird to add his mine to e honest, but maybe that will change in the future.

My mum and dad both call their in laws by their first name too. The only exception to this was my stepdad's mum who was a bit of an old fashioned lady - kids seen and not heard type person. We all called her Mrs 'surname' even my mum! It would have been weird to call her by her first name.

We call each other's parents by their first names unless we are talking to each other about them, in which case its 'your mum' 'your dad'. Its a bit confusing becaus H has the same name as his dad, so when I'm at their house I tend to call H by the cutesy nickname his parents call him (which always makes them smile). He calls my gran by her first name - he doesn't have any living grandparents.

I'm not sure what my parents call each others' parents because I haven't sen them in the same room as each other since I was a child. I expect my dad would call my mum's mum by her first name.I could well imgine my Dad's mum insisting on Mrs (her surname) from my mum - but I might be wrong!

I had an ex whose grandma I used to refer to as 'Nanna D' (her name was Doris) and I loved that!

Twunts! ?

OH doesn't speak to his parents, with good reason. This is one of the nicer names we call them!

I call his mom her name but his dad the above!

I too can't repeat most of the names I call them! If speaking to H it depends on how much they have wound me up as to whether it's "your mother" or "Your Fu3king mother" and the same for his Dad.

To their face I call them their names, occassionally "mother in law" if i'm in a good mood with her.I call H's Nan by her name..

It also helps that my parents are divorced so when talking to H "Mom and Dad" are his parents "Mom and L" is my Mom and stepdad and "Dad and B" is my Dad and stepmom - so we only have one "Mom and Dad" and simularly we only have one "Nan and Grand" and one "Nan" on her own.

By their real names when face to face- or when talking to oh then ''your folks'' or otherwise the inlaws..

"H's mum" or "your mum"

i do feel weird when i call her Liz, my mum always taught me to call my friends parents Mr or Mrs XXXXX

Actually, my mum has always referred to my Dad's mum as "Terry's mum"

maybe ive just got into the habit from her?!

I have a mum, i wold feel really weird calling someone else 'mum' and also that im betraying her!!

I call my MIL by her name and with OH 'your mum' and vica versa.

Slightly derailing a bit. When I was growing up I always called my next door neighbours Aunty Pat and Uncle Alastair even though they were no relation at all. I can't remember if mum prompted me to call them that so not sure how it started. Still to this day now I'm almost 35 I still call them Aunty Pat and Uncle Alastair, I think it's just habit and it's stuck.

Did anyone else do that?

Yes, I did ?

And I'm an 'Aunty' to my best friend's children ?

I call them by their names (and my mum calls her in-laws by their names too)

Yup, me too. My next door neighbours were (and still are) Auntie and Uncle. My Godmother and her husband too....actually both my godparents were!

And as SassyT said, I am also Auntie to my best friend's children ?

I don't speak to mine (never met them either), and H never talks about them, so they're pretty much non existant in our house.

With my ex ILs, I called them by their names. My ex called my Mum "Mum", but mainly in a jokey was, as she used to call him son.