A question for the AUNTS

Original post by greenfreak

Jul 05, 2006 12:18 PM

Do your nieces and nephews call anyone other than blood relation 'Aunt' and 'Uncle'? Such as, the friends of your brother or sister?

My sister instructed her kids to call her new friend 'Aunt ______' and it drives me batty. This friend is not a friend of the whole family. As a matter of fact, the rest of the family doesn't like her at all.

I could maybe understand a friend of the whole family, which we've had. We never called them Aunt and Uncle. Hell, my mother NAMED me after one of them and we don't call her Aunt Patricia.

After all the years of being an Aunt to these kids, helping raise them even, and my sister befriends some biotch and decides she deserves to be called an Aunt to these kids?

Would you be pissed or am I being too sensitive?

eta: This woman has been a friend of my sister's for less than a year.

ML110 Posted: Jul 06, 2006 03:28 PM

Re: A question for the AUNTS

i can definitely see why you're upset in this situation... because it doesn't seem to be a close friend of hers, and i don't think a ' new' friend should get the title of aunt...
BUT... i will say that DH has about 8 or 9f friends that hes had since high school who we are extremely close to. DH is an only child, so these people are like his siblings... so we definitely plan on having our kids call them 'aunt' and 'uncle' when we have kids.
but theres a difference between people hes known for 10, 15 years and a new friend of less than a year.. i don't tink theres much you can do though, i think its just one of those things that you need to just not worry about- it is how it is...