re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I have seen it used in some rather “traditional” families: the appellation is used not so much in the Freudian sense as in “mother of our family”.
Yes, I know. It’s still gross and creepy because spouses that do it are defining each other to their faces firs & foremost according to their reproductive roles, instead of as individual persons.