What is it about wanting to impress your future mother in law? I have a FANTASTIC FMIL. She’s the kind of mother that you could only wish you’ll be. She puts her children first and foremost in everything she does. I was describing her once to my good friend and I started bawling just talking about her. Last year she and her sisters sewed me my own Christmas Stocking (or “sock” as Mr. Penguin likes to call it) and I just about died right then and there. Needless to say, I always find myself wanting to impress her, even though it’s hard, because I’m half Thai-half Insane.
Since our engagement, I find myself exchanging E-Mails with her more frequently than usual, just keeping her posted on how the planning is going and what not… but I find myself avoiding sending her E-Mails because I don’t know what to call her! I’m perfectly comfortable calling Mr. Penguin’s dad by his first name, but for some reason, I can’t get myself to call my FMIL anything! I feel like calling her by her first name or Mrs. Lastname is incredibly formal, while calling her “Mom” is inappropriate. Occasionally she E-mails both Mr. Penguin and I simultaneously, where she signs off as “Mom”. But when she sends E-Mails to me alone, she signs them “Love, Jane”.
I’ve gone through scads of vague E-Mail greetings, varying from “Hello there!” to “It’s me again!” But never “Hi Mom” or “Dear Jane” or “Greetings Mrs. Penguin”.
Are you experiencing parental name block? Have you and your FMIL/FFIL addressed the issue as to what you should greet them as, or are you skating by in a world of namelessness?
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