Any girl who uses the excuse that she has “only one mother” (so she cannot call her MIL Mom, Ma, Ema, etc.) is forgetting that her husband’s parents become her “parents” too, in terms of her obligation to be mechabeid them. If she calls her mother Mom, then IMO she should at least call her MIL “Ma.” I suspect (and of course I may be totally off-base, here) that the young woman who refuses to do so, might not have all that wonderful a relationship with the MIL, for her to take such a position. If she really loved her MIL, she would probably not feel that way. I have some friends who feel the same way as this sister-in-law, and every one of them has a poor relationship with the husband’s mom. Ironically, one of them has a lousy relationship with her own mom, too.
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