WHEN YOUR MOTHER IS NOT YOUR MOTHER!

     As long as I live, I will never learn to get used to someone calling his wife "mother." It is his wife and should be addressed as so. Also, in that category falls old lady, old man, or sis for that matter. I know these are what we call  country usage, but, for some reason I never can get used to hearing someone calling a relative something other than by their name or at least as my "wife" or even better half.

    I have a close friend when talking about his wife always refers to her as "the wife' or "her." As a good friend, I just tolerate it. And, it wasn't that my mother was highfalutin and taught us kids the Queens English or the like. It's just me!