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Their first names.

I call them Mom and Dad. My parents always did the same with their in-laws when I was growing up. When I was getting married, my mom mentioned that if my in-laws invited me to call them mom and dad, that I was welcome to do so without worrying how she would feel. She said she knew I was her child and that she knew I knew she was my mother, and that increasing the size of my family wouldn't change that. She said she hoped I would find in my MIL someone who loved me in a way as close to that bond as possible. It was really sweet and meant a lot to me. When we got engaged, I called them Mom Lastname and Dad Lastname. I dropped the last name after we got married.

Mom and dad.

But DH and I dated for 8 years before getting married, and up until that day, they were Mr and. Mrs LastName.

I met them when I was young, so it was just what I called them, and it was just never easy to make a transition. It's still weird to call them mom and dad, but that's better than Mr and Mrs 9+ years in.

Mom and dad in Vietnamese.

I pretty much avoid addressing them as anything, and just make general requests in their direction, but used their first names if absolutely necessary. If LO's there, I'll maybe refer to them as Pepere/Grandma.

I call my MIL Mom. I don't know my FIL very well and have never addressed him (they're divorced).

The only thing I have ever called them is mom and dad in Vietnamese as part of a greeting like 4 times. I never address them my any name otherwise and when I refer to them I say DH's parents.

I don't call them anything, I avoid it at all costs If I email I put their first names but it feels really odd to do it in person. I really wish we'd had a conversation about it at some point!

First names.

My husband never called my parents anything, and he still doesn't call my dad anything! He finds it all very awkward, haha.

I once asked him how he would get my dad's attention in a crowd of people, if he needed to. He said he'd just keep yelling "Hey!" This cracks me up for some reason!

First names. My husband calls my parents by their first names too. Actually he doesn't really address my dad now that others have mentioned it here haha. I think he would call my mom mom. I'm sure he's called her momma last name before.

I kind of avoid calling them anything, but when I have to I use first names.

After we got married MIL said to call her mom but that is weird to me and I never will.

I never met my MIL, she died of cancer before I met DH. I call FIL dad in Vietnamese like how DH calls him and stepmom is Aunt FirstName. DH doesn't call his stepmom mom so I don't either.

I just call them their first names.

First names. I called them Mr. and Mrs. So-and-so until the day we got married.

Like you, I avoided calling them anything. Now I use their Grandma/Grandpa names. I would have a really hard time calling them Mom and Dad.

Mil- first name and Dad

I call them by their first names, although when DH and I were first dating I avoided calling them anything. I only refer to them as Mom & Dad on cards/gift tags from DH and I.

either first names or mom and dad. It depends on who I'm talking to.

@Pepper: my husband said the exact same thing. He's never addressed my parents by name or anything for the last 8 years. How do you avoid addressing someone for that long? AND HE HANGS OUT WITH MY DAD.

I call my ILs by their first names.