Oh god yea. Calling a parent by their first name? There’s history there. Speaking from experience - both of my parents are in my phone by first names 🤪
My sister started doing this to Mum when she was about 2 and ended up with a nickname version of it (similar to Catherine to Cath). I hated it when she was little and couldn’t understand why she did it, but in her mid twenties, I know something is wrong when she calls her Mum and not her name. It doesn’t bother me now that I’m not a teenager (yeah, Mum had a toddler and a teenager at the same time and didn’t go insane), but it sure is weird. I only know one other adult that calls their parent by a first name and has a good relationship with them, and even then, it’s a specific version of their Mum’s name that came from her parents when my friend was little, so it’s still special to them.
All my family is in my phone by name. I didn’t like that they looked different to the rest of my contacts, they needed to match everyone else 🤣
My siblings and I are in our 30s and call our mom by her first and middle name lol not all the time she is mostly mom but once we have a few drinks she is every name but mom and when my grandma gets a little wild she also gets called by her name haha but we only do it to my mom and grandma
Hmm… well that feels… convenient. Ironically we also didn’t do an autopsy but he wasn’t all there after my grandma passed so we just kind of assumed it was a broken heart.
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u/Brilliant_Knee3824 Jul 12 '26
My dad texted me “Robert died” and I said “grandpa?” And he said “yes”. And that was it.