MIL - AIBU?

[SoberSusan]

1st met now DH's DP when I was much younger so called them Mr & Mrs [ ], expecting them to say call us by our 1st names. They didn't.

8 years and a lot of Mr & Mrs-ing later, DH and I got engaged. MIL announced that now I am family I could have the honour of calling her Elizabeth (obviously not real name). But, everybody else calls her Beth. Everybody from next door neighbours to the postman. I am the only person in the World expected to call her by her full name.

I really only questioned it when one of my friends who she'd met twice (but is an old Etonian - which she likes) called her Mrs [ ], and she responded call me Beth. Which he now does.

AIBU to think this is ridiculous?

YANBU.

Just start calling her Beth.

Yanbu.

Call her Fred

Don't call her anything; just avoid using her name!

Just start calling her Beth. And do it every time. She will look like a knob constantly correcting you!

YANBU. Call her Old Bet.

Call her Beth. What can she do exactly other than make a dick out of herself by correcting you everytime.

Wtf yanbu

Weird all round. When I first met DPs parents I was told their names and that's what I always called them. Call his grandparents grandma and grandma as that's what literally everyone (and by everyone I even mean even the people who serve in the local pub).
Just call her Beth. And actually call her Beth and not her shortened proper name. If questioned say seeing as you called her by a different name to everyone else anyway you thought you would pick one you like

Id love to know what the man you plan to marry says about this?

I mean if this was your DP making him call them special names what would you say?

Call her Mum. I bet that'll fuck her right off.

Anyway - do not call her by the name she has allowed or by beth - simply call her Bertha. Or BB Big Bertha .

Dont lower yourself or stretch your dignity any further by doing as she says.

Ha yes call her mother.

Ma

What is her actual name? Is it Beth?

Or Miss Beth. In a Deep South accent. Then fan yourself.

Liz, Lizzie, Lizard

Any of the above rather than Beth

Please start calling her mum

Call her Big Liz. Repeatedly.

Agree with calling her Beth. Just do it. I would.

If everyone calls her Beth she won't even notice it I'd think.

Perhaps she doesn't really like Beth though and prefers Elizabeth?

I know a lady called Sue who would really prefer Susan but can't get anyone to drop the habit.

Maybe she would really like to be called Elizabeth by everyone else though? Perhaps someone started to call her Beth and it stuck somehow and spread?! When she got a chance to dictate what she should be called she jumped at it

Call her Maj

Not sure if you are actually married yet but if not, on your wedding day you should ask her to now call you Mrs HerSurname. Then call her Bestsy, Lilbet, Liz...anything other than Elizabeth. (Are you actually Kate? )

Sorry to drip feed, but she offered me the choice of "Elizabeth" or "mother" . Even her DC don't call her "mother"!

Love some of these suggestions . Im seriously tempted to hit the alcohol at Christmas and put them into practice!

Sorry, I'm way too common to even comprehend this. The thought of calling a boyfriend's parents 'Mr and Mrs X' gives me the giggles. Why on earth hasn't your DP told her to stop being a pretentious twat??