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[quote=Anonymous]I think your in-laws sound weird. Requiring that your daughter-in-law call you Ms. ANYTHING is weird. She is placing you in a very subordinate position to her and then framing it as "respect." I would also have very little patience for her correcting my children, and I would tell her, "Sue, Dave and I are raising our children to be respectful. We are working with them on respectful titles for adults. Please do not correct our children. That is our job, as their parents." Also, perhaps it is the informal disrespectful household that I was raised in, but there is no universe in which I would ever have called DH's parents "sir" or "ma'am" beyond MAYBE the first time I met them. I would not refer to them as "Mr. and Mrs." unless I was referring to them in the third person, to someone who had never met them. What would happen if you stopped conforming to this absurdity? [/quote]
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