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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not everything needs to be taken personally as though it was meant to offend you. [/quote]

Except it's close family and we've brought it up with them a couple of times in years past already because I do not like it. I don't think it's MEANT to offend me. And I'm not offended. I'm irritated.

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OP your title is not going to generate productive responses here.

But I get it - I don't really care for one-off interactions or my DH's elderly relatives who are not going to change. But there are a couple peer-age ppl who have been told multiple times and should know and at some point it is just rude.[/quote]

This is OP - and for sure, I would not give this two thoughts if it were elderly relatives. These people are younger than we are!

I was annoyed for a moment, vented for a moment, now I'm over it - till next year.[/quote]

When younger people do the “Mr and Mrs Joe Smith,” they think they’re being very fancy/Emily Post.

Usually they are actually clueless, as the most polite thing is to address people how they want to be addressed! [/quote]

These people aren't young - they're just younger than we are. Totally agree about the reasoning for many people. Class anxiety, wanting to be seen as "proper" = thinking this is just how it's done. I don't know if that's why this couple defaults to such an old fashioned and out of date - and incorrect! - mode. But they have educations, a good income, all that, and we've asked them to change how they do it for us - so I kind of think it's on them at this point. But I also don't expect them to change. I just get irritated every year, then it's over again.

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