How do you refer to your partner’s parents?

You’re not married or engaged, you see them all the time, they’re your child’s grandparents - what do you call them? I keep going to call them the in-laws but there’s technically no law involved so..?

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When we weren't married I'd just say my partner's parents.

In the same way I call them my in laws now unless I'm talking with my kids and we'll obviously say "Granny and Grandad."

Talking to other adults without kids around saying "my kid's grandparents' would be weird. Why bring the kids into it? Talk about what they are to you - they're your partner's parents.

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Currently engaged and don't refer to them as in-laws, but it's more so because that's not natural for me to say. Prior to engagement was the same. I'll probably still say my partner/husband's parents after we're legal.

If I don't say partner's parents I'll say (kids name) grandmother/father

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To others, Mum and Dad. To their face - mum and Dad. When talking about them on here, in laws. When me and hubby talk it’s “your mum” or “my mum” but it’s both Mum. Hubby calls my Mum mum behind her back and to her face. Oh sorry we’re married. When dating I called her Aunty. (My MIL)

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I wouldn’t call anyone a title that they are not. So in this case that u described I would call them my partners parents cuz that’s what they are. I wouldn’t call them “my in laws” If I wasn’t married to their son. Just like I wouldn’t call my Husband “my Husband” if we weren’t married, even if we had children and were living together as if we were married (the fact would stilll remain that we are not husband & wife) so it would be silly of us to call each other that if we weren’t married. So again same thing goes for parents; partners parents or children’s grandparents is just fine. I wouldn’t call them my “in laws” unless the law was involved cuz that would mean I was married to their son.
I personally don’t call ppl titles they haven’t earned. And I wouldn’t want ppl to call me or give me false titles

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My boyfriend’s parents are dead but I still call them my in-laws when discussing them with other people. We will never be married but my boyfriend still calls me his wife to outside people so it just makes sense and he calls my mom and stepdad his in-laws too.

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Mother in law to others, mum to her. I love that woman

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Definitely my partners parents. They're not my in laws because we're not married and I've never met them and again they're not my daughter's grandparents because she's never met them

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Depends what I’m talking about. But mainly Baby’s grandparents

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Depends on where im at...but mostly "his people"& in no disrespectful way is how I met that

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if you’re not married they’re not your in law’s just his parents if you have a baby they’re the grandparents. if you’re married then you can say in law’s

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I call them my in-laws and my daughter's grandparents. It just depends on the context of the conversation which I use at what point.

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