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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I get you.  This drives me nuts too.  If I hear someone telling a story, such as, ". . .and then [b]Mom[/b] said. . ." I feel like interrupting them and saying, "OMG!  I never knew my mom said that!  Oh??  YOUR mom??  Oh, well, you just said, 'mom,' without any further modification so I was like, 'Oh my gosh, I never knew [b]my mom[/b] did that!  That's so funny!'"

GRRRR................ [/quote]

OP here. Yes. Exactly![/quote]

People who use just "Mom" capitalize it as a proper noun because to them it registers as that persons name just like Sally or Jane. People who use "my mom" do not capitalize because they don't view it the same way. I think the ones who use Mom and Dad without "my" are or were very close to their parents while growing up. [/quote]

Hmm, I don't know - I was very close to my parents, but I still recognize that they aren't the only mom and dad in the world - so I say [i]my[/i] mom and [i]my[/i] dad :)[/quote]

Ditto to this.  Extremely close to my parents.  Still clarify, when I am talking about them to others, that I mean MY mom and MY dad.  IN fact, like another poster said, sometimes, if I am talking to one of my siblings, I'll accidentally say something like, "And then I was talking with my mom. . .OH YEAH, she's your mom too."  And we laugh about it.

This is the only time you can say "Mom" or "Dad" without a modifier, in my humble opinion:  when you are talking to one of your siblings, b/c of course, duh, you then of course have the same mom and dad!!  [/quote]

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