what do your SIL's and DIL's call you?

momof3sons
Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:29:17 +0000

We haven’t had a formal conversation with our DIL, but I sign emails to her with my first name, and I think she is picking up on that. I wouldn’t want her to call me mom. I’m not her mother, and I remember how incredibly uncomfortable I was when first married and had to call my MIL “mom.” This really bothered me. She wasn’t my mother and I didn’t have particularly warm feelings for her. Now I call her “mom” (she’s 93 and my mother passed away over 10 years ago) but it doesn’t feel like anything to me so it doesn’t bother me.