What a gay post

I call my parents "mom" and "dad" and my boyfriend I call "hun" I rarely use his first name. My cat on the other hand has a gazillion names but I mostly call him "Consky" (pronounced con-skee). It's a variation of Connor that I made up lol.

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id want to call them mum and dad but i had a dark phase that lasted for so many years it wouldnt feel natural

Forever mom and dad.

dis

I call my mother mom and my father dad. Just how I've always known them at this point.

This post was edited by obisent on Jun 23 2016 02:44pm

On a first name basis with them both, no such attachment to call them by their titles.

Mother and father are elders to us. It is their job as successful parents to be our teachers in the ways of life so that we, as their offspring succeed.
For that reason, though we are all indeed peers, I like the idea of mom and dad or whatever it is you say. It helps to setup an interesting teacher-pupil relationship. They are our parents, male teacher and female teacher (biologically speaking) and each one carries valuable lessons in femininity and masculinity.
At the same time however, I don't see that it is 100% necessary.

It's an honorific. My parents can be "David & Kathy" to everybody else in the world, but to me, they're much more special. To me, failure to use an honorific with someone who deserves it lessens me.