View Full Version : Do/did you call non-relatives aunt or uncle?


browneyes106
08-31-2009, 10:22 PM
I know a lot of people who would call close friends of their parents aunt or uncle. I never did. I was just wondering if any of you do or did.

Marvo301
08-31-2009, 10:33 PM
No, I never did.

Mr. Television
08-31-2009, 10:38 PM
No I never have.

*Pleasant Tomorrow*
08-31-2009, 11:14 PM
Nope. I don't even call my actual aunts and uncles by the title. My family is just really informal I guess; none of us use the title before the name.

littlebelle
08-31-2009, 11:23 PM
Yeah people in my family do that. I grew up thinking I had a million aunts and uncles lol.

phoebe7165
08-31-2009, 11:53 PM
My dad has a good friend he's known since he was 5 and my siblings & I called him Uncle Eddie for a good part of our lives.

Family Ties Forever!
08-31-2009, 11:57 PM
Yes. There is one person. My mother has been friends with her since spring 1981. They have known each other so long that they might as well be sisters. So my brother, sister and I call my mother's friend Jodi Aunt Jodi.

catlover79
09-01-2009, 12:24 AM
My sister and I still refer to our godmothers (longtime friends of our parents) Aunt Jan and Aunt Nancy. My mom actually said not too long ago we can stop calling them "Aunt". But I've known them as "Aunt" my whole life, and I can't imagine referring to them as anything else. :D

Scoobiedoo30
09-01-2009, 12:50 AM
Yes my dad had a friend who I called Uncle

Faith
09-01-2009, 02:02 AM
Yup.. My grandma has a friend who all of us call Aunt Bonnie. They have been friends since my dad was little. Also a man that used to babysit me, all of my cousins and my brother call Uncle Randy.

treky
09-01-2009, 03:54 AM
there's a couple that we know, and we call them aunt and uncle; even though they're just family friends.

Ohio8
09-01-2009, 10:33 AM
Yes. My Aunt Virginia ("Auntie Vir"), who was my mom's best friend, and my Uncle Jack, who was "Auntie Vir's" first husand.

MickeyMac
09-01-2009, 11:47 AM
I used to call my step father's siblings aunt and uncle. Mainly because I was lead to believe they were my real aunt and uncle.

coffield3
09-01-2009, 11:50 AM
No never.

comedyfreak
09-02-2009, 04:09 AM
Not me I wouldn't feel right.

Schmoopie
09-03-2009, 05:04 AM
My mom just got married to a man that was my dad's best friend. I've known him since I was born. However, I always called him by his first name, and that's probably the way I'll continue to address him, even though I could call him "Dad" now!

The man that married my mom and dad (back in 1967!) was a good friend of the family and I always called him by his first name as well.

The only ones I address by Aunt or Uncle are my real Aunt and Uncles!

Vito
09-06-2009, 04:09 AM
The only non-relative I ever called "aunt" was my youngest brother's godmother. But we never called her husband "uncle", for some reason.