Calling Close Friends "Aunt or Uncle"

VABride2008

Anyone else do this?  We call my best friend "Auntie C" and I kind of got the impression that my SIL got upset by this.  Not that I really care because she still calls my husband's ex girlfriend her "sistah."

 

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mcdmaw

Yep!  Sophia has LOTS of Aunties and Uncles that have no blood relation what-so-ever!

Personally, I think its silly to get offended.  Who cares if more people are loving your niece or nephew?  Its not like they will love SIL more if she is the only person LO can call Aunt. 

CinemaGoddess

Oddly enough, we call all of our close friends "auntie" and "uncle" and my SIL is only called by her first name. 

Mrs.Cford

We do this too, we have a very close group of friends that I know DD will grow up thinking of them as aunts and uncles and their kids as cousins so why not call them that - DD may not call them that as she grows up but we do.

OrangeSmoke

Well, dh has 30 plus first cousins (and yes, abou 50 counting all of their spouses), so while they are technically not aunt/uncles, we call them aunt/uncles.

I have 2 first cousins and no siblings.  So yeah, my friends get aunt/uncle.

You SIL needs to get over it.

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pazrana

I grew up doing this and I'm sure DD will as well.

MrsSR

We won't.  I don't like this for some reason.  My SIL does it with close friends and it sounds dumb to me.  I have four brothers, all married, and DH has two brothers, both married.

She has plenty of blood related aunts and uncles.

mocklerja

We did with a couple of my mom's close friends growing up, so we will probably do this as well with our close friends.  I am still not used to calling adults that are my parents age by their first names (even if they introduce each other like that)....

LCB34

We do it with a handful of our super close friends. The problem I'm having is that other friends are trying to give themselves the title aunt/ uncle which I find very weird.

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LCB34

SookieFrackhouse68:

LCB34:

We do it with a handful of our super close friends. The problem I'm having is that other friends are trying to give themselves the title aunt/ uncle which I find very weird.

Wow! I'd be mortified to refer to myself as that unless the parent did so first. Agreed, weirdness.

Yeah it rubs me the wrong way but several of our friends have done it. The worst being one of my sorority sisters. Yes we are friends but not super close yet she constantly refers to herself as Auntie M. And get this - she calls her deadbeat boyfriend Uncle C. Um, WTF? Your deadbeat guy will never be around my child, much less be called uncle. Alex tells me not to worry about it since, if history repears itself, they won't be together for long. But it really bothers me.

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CinemaGoddess

SookieFrackhouse68:

cinema_goddess:

Oddly enough, we call all of our close friends "auntie" and "uncle" and my SIL is only called by her first name. 

:snort: Oh snap, BUUUURN!

*looks morosely at the place where Mr Darcy's hotness should be.* My work computer ruins my day... daily!

Hahahahaha!  It's not an intentional slight.  DH's immediate family has issues with titles like that.  Even my ILs are called by their first names by the nephews, not by "Grandma" and "Grandpa".  

They think titles like Aunt and Uncle are somehow elitist and don't teach children that adults are their equals.  

Weirdos.  

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detokiet

We call his godmother "Auntie", though his godfather is "Godpapa". Other friends are "Miss V___" or "Mr. D___" and his daycare provider is "Miss M___" but only when we're talking to DS about it. (Not that he understands right now of course, but eventually he will.)

 

When I was a kid we weren't told that we HAD to call our aunts and uncles by Aunt or Uncle, sometimes we did and sometimes we called them just by their names. My family was laid back like that. DH's family, however, calls all aunts and uncles by Aunt and Uncle - it doesn't bother me if my nephews or nieces from his side don't call me "Aunt"....but they usually do. 

jim7496

We typically call super close friends "Auntie" or "Uncle", but other friends we plan on telling LO to call them Ms.___ or Mr.____. 

MillersXing

Select people we do. My friend from nursery school (30 years, yikes!) is like a sister the way we grew up so "Aunt' isn't weird. I'm "Aunt" to her kids.

angelame1979

I also have some close friends we call Auntie.  I hope it ticks my SIL off..not that I think it does but she just met DD the week before Christmas (she lives only 4 hours away).  She didn't come to my baby shower either and that really.  She also got mad when we told her who DD's god parents were (my sisters and DH's brother). She whined that she is  no one's godmother.  She held DD like she was a football and it took her 4 months to meet her.  Yah, I don't think so.  DH's brother has not meet her yet either but I wasn't going to pick her over my sisters.  Don't let anyone get mad at you for that.  You do whatever you want and they can get over themselves.