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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Calling someone who is not your mom "mom" seems weird to me... creepy, actually. Even my have-no-border ILs didn't suggest this (and if they did, I would say no thanks). Obviously there is enough love to go around but I don't get the idea of calling someone a title that they don't have... frankly it seems a little incestuous; I was raised most of my life until marriage thinking that the person who calls my mom and dad "mom and dad" is my sibling, not my husband...[/quote]

I agree.  A mother's role (and title) is singular.  The intense mother/child relationship develops over many years and entails a degree of intimacy on a day-to-day basis that is not comparable to any other relationship, really.  I love e.g. my BFF and my DH, but the love is vastly different from the love I have for my mother.

My DH's mother is my DH's mother.  Full stop.  She's not my mother, not even close.  Even if I loved her deeply (I don't), why would I call her by that name?[/quote]

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