Is It Too Hard to Call Her Mom?
All of This Is Intermittent and Involuntary.
Ever since I was born, for 26 years of my life, I have called my birth parents Mom and Dad.
Life has always been like this.
You get older, and people expect you to get married. You, too, expect to settle down as soon as possible because either your biological clock is ticking, or you get afraid of being alone, or you simply find someone worth spending your life with.
Fortunately, I found that perfect partner I wanted to settle down with. However, when you belong to a country like India, you don’t just marry a person; you marry a whole family.
This is the background of my story.
I found someone I fell in love with, and I am all set to marry this person. As I mentioned, in India, you marry the entire family, so his parents are also going to be my parents.
It has been two months since we got engaged, and he has already started calling my mother “Mom”. So why is it so difficult for me to call his parents “Mom” and “Dad”? Why do I talk to his mother so many times and yet find it difficult to call her my mother?
It’s not that I don’t want to call her “Mom”. I want to, yet I overthink it a lot.
