What influences the order of names in a couple?

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Originally Posted by princessbelle

How about this one...

Mom and Dad.

Or do some say Dad and Mom?

Just sounds so much better the first way to *me*

Grandma and Grandpa vs. Grandpa and Grandma

Aunts and Uncles vs. Uncles and Aunts

it's so interesting...all of this.

I still think for *me* it is simply a matter of who i am closest to in the relationship...either family or friend.

Don't really refer to my biological father as "dad" so it's just "mum" for me. I suppose I could go with mum and douchebag...

Other than that:

Never called my grandparents "grandma" and "grandpa" either. But it was always mémère (grandmother) et pépère (grandfather) but occasionally it was pépère et mémère. Either way I valued my maternal grandparents equally.

In German it's always oma/omi (grandmother) und opa/opi (grandfather) instead of opa/opi und oma/omi for whatever reason.

In Greek seems like yiayia (grandmother) always came before papou (grandfather).

It's weird with aunts/uncles. In English I say aunt and uncle.

But in French I always say mononc' (uncle) et matant' (aunt).

Same in German (Onkel X und Tante Y vs. Tante Y und Onkel X).

While in Greek I would always say thea (aunt) before theo (uncle).

Odd...