Calling in-laws "mom" and "dad"?

I have a mom and dad. I'm not calling anyone else mom and dad.

I call my MIL Mom but my FIL his name. It's based on relationship only.

I just remember seeing this as a kid and thinking "this is totally normal, it's what you do when you get married, you call your new in-laws mom and dad" but I hardly ever see it anymore

I call them both mom and dad. But I've done that for years before we ever got engaged. Sometimes I'll refer to them as "mom and dad- last name"

I do it! I still call my ex-MIL & ex-FIL by "mom" & "Dad" as they still treat me as their family and we all have a great relationship even with my FH included. My ex-husband & FH became good friends and get along well....it's an awesome thing especially for my daughter!

I don't plan on calling them that. I still call them "Mrs. *insert first name* & Mr. *insert first name*"

I call them mom and dad. I also call my step parents mom and dad. I switch between that an first names for all my parents for clarity. My mom and dad aren't offended by it one bit.

So for those that do, when you first started calling them that was it awkward or did it feel natural? Did you talk about it or just do it?

I call my FMIL Momma or Yaya and my FFIL Pepaw... everyone in the family does bc of all the kids being so little. But kids or no kids I would call them that, just depends on the kind of relationship you have with them, mine are my 2nd parents and I'm super close with them, so much so that it would be weird to call them anything else.

It more started out with DH saying "hey mom... blah blah blah." In the same conversation I'd say, "yea, mom... blah blah blah." When they call DH he'll put it on speaker for a second and I'll shout "Hi mom and dad." And it just kind of went from there.

I think i will get to the mom and dad thing over the next year. H and I have been together for over 5 years and his mom says I'm your mom too now and calls me her bonus baby or bonus kid. I don't see my husband calling my parents mom and dad even though we see them at least once a week. Maybe once we have a kid. My brothers wife does call my parents mom and dad though.

I started calling them mom and dad years ago when we first started dating. no one talked about it it just felt natural

I call my in laws mom and dad. And FH does the same with my parents

I think this is dependent on the person's preference. I know my mom expects to be called Mrs. LastName not by her first name and not Mom as she is not FH's mother. I call my FMIL by her first name because that's what she said to call her. I love my FMIL, but she's not my mom and Mom isn't her name.

I call them mom and dad sometimes. I'm really close with them though. I also call his grandparents "Grandma and grandpa" and his aunt "aunt (insert name)"

I've just always done that.

I call them by their names

My dad called my mom's parents "mom and dad" because he was closer to them than his own parents. My mom was never really accepted by my dad's parents, so I think that's why she never called them mom and dad. I call my ILs by their first names. I am not that close with H's parents that I would feel comfortable calling them mom and dad. H also calls my parents by their first names. I do not have any living grandparents, and I have never met H's one living grandmother (who lives 3000 away), so have not had a chance to figure out what we would feel comfortable with me calling her.

I've always had the habit of adopting my close friends' parents and calling them Mom and Dad, so it wasn't unusual for me to call my boyfriends' parents the same unless they prefer using their first name. I think I started calling DH's parents Mom and Dad soon after I met them because I don't recall using other names!

My FH calls my mother "mom" but would never call my father "dad" because he's not close to my dad. I never asked him to call my mom "mom", he just started doing it and we never really talked about it. But my mom is very open and loving so I think it just came natural, plus my brother's wife calls my mom "mom" too so maybe he just picked it up from her.

I don't call his parents mom or dad though and can't really see myself doing so. And I don't call them by their first names, nor Mr. and Mrs. either. I just awkwardly avoid addressing them by name and have done so for 5 years now, which I realize is a little odd but I feel like I'm past the point of return now. FH has gently encouraged me to call his parents "mom" and "dad" or at least let me know that I can, but the most I can do is address their cards and gifts to "mom" and "dad".

Just do whatever feels natural to all parties involved.

I could never call my FH's parents mom and Dad. I only see them 1-2 times a year, we could never be at that level. I jut would never feel comfortable.