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Come on people obviously when I stated that it "blows my mind" I was just exaggerating. It is really not that big a deal so calm down. It just was something I asked if any others experienced this. It does throw me off due to the fact that I have never heard this done before. It's just weird to me that a mother would call her daughter "sister".
My mother-in-law/"sister-in-law" only had brothers and they were a small family.
Well you are the one that said it "blew you're mind". Not sure how we are supposed to that you were exaggerating.
In any event, it is simply a nickname. I've heard several mothers refer to a daughter as " sis", or "Sissie". In all cases, I think, there is a sibling. The nickname is simply something that started when kids were young and it stuck. No big deal. Similar to the situation where one parent, when referring to the other parent in conversation with a child, uses the term " "mommy" or "daddy".
Oh, yeah, when I was a kid growing up in NC it was sort of a country thing to always refer to the girl in the family as Sissy. I would not give this a second thought.
Come on people obviously when I stated that it "blows my mind" I was just exaggerating. It is really not that big a deal so calm down. It just was something I asked if any others experienced this. It does throw me off due to the fact that I have never heard this done before. It's just weird to me that a mother would call her daughter "sister".
My mother-in-law/"sister-in-law" only had brothers and they were a small family.
We don't know you, and are aren't mind readers. You're the one who described that way.
If it's not a big deal why did you even bring it up?
If this is your biggest issue in regards to marriage and in-laws be grateful.
Come on people obviously when I stated that it "blows my mind" I was just exaggerating. It is really not that big a deal so calm down. It just was something I asked if any others experienced this. It does throw me off due to the fact that I have never heard this done before. It's just weird to me that a mother would call her daughter "sister".
My mother-in-law/"sister-in-law" only had brothers and they were a small family.
I've heard a lot of mothers call their daughters sis/sissy whose other siblings were brothers. Nothing strange about it.
To me it seems the mom doesn't want to age and acts like she is younger and feels better about herself, calling her the sister.
Obviously I don't know anything about the OP's MIL, but I've heard women called "Sis" or "Sister" all my life and it has never meant the speaker is trying to appear younger. It may be a Southern thing or a rural thing.
There was a family story that was told when my mother and her siblings were alive. I was about 4 and my favorite uncle took me to a gift shop that had some paintings in it. I remember looking at a painting of a clown and I guess he had to tell me not to touch it, or maybe I was misbehaving some other way around breakable things. If he chided me, he would have done it in a loving, joking way because we were crazy about each other.
Anyway, when we were leaving, the woman who worked in the store said, "Y'all come back!" like clerks in southern establishments do. And my uncle said, "We'll be back, but Little Sister here (referring to me) won't be with us." That cracked me up and he told the story when we got back to wherever my parents were. And it became one of those family stories.
One thing that throws me off about my wife is she calls her mother "Mom" but her mother calls her "Sister" or "Sis". This blows my mind. They are very close to one another. Her mother is the only person I know off that refers to her daughter as her sister and I mean like all the time not just once or twice to be funny. They do look alike and could be mistaken for sisters. Her mother looks very young for her age. Anyone else ever experience or seen this?
The mom is likely vain and is not "allowing herself" to age. She'll also be one of those grandmothers that refuses to be called Grandma and comes up with some name like "MeeMee" that she thinks is cute.
I asked an older Hispanic woman why that was (and boys were papa) and she said "because they are the ones really in charge.
My family is Cuban, and it was mami and papi, which is slang for "baby" in Spanish
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