What do you class as aunt and uncle

[emilyjade]

i call mine twats! no not really i havnt spoke to mine since i was 10!

 

[marley2580]

Only if they were together before I was born - that's only one pair in my family lol

 

[Boothh]

we call SILS boyfriend jesses 'uncle' and i always write OH as uncle in my nieces birthday cards etc,

with my aunties an uncles if iv grown up with their partner i call them aunty or uncle, not so much any more just certain ones, but for instance my uncle is getting married in a few weeks i wouldnt refer to his wife as my auntie even though iv call her jesses great aunty if you get what i mean LOL,

i call my mums friends 'aunty' still too haha xx

 

[Vesta]

My dad has 7 sisters, and I call all their husbands uncle. Same with my mum's sister. I also refer to my mum's 3 step brothers and their wives as aunty and uncle too. Also my mum's best friend and her husband. I have a lot of aunts and uncles.

 

[live_in_hope]

Yer I called mine Aunty and Uncle, mind you, only the one's who were/are together when I was young. But my dads brother has re-married since I've been an adult and I just call her and refer to her by her first name.

As a child I also had auntys and uncles who were my parents closest friends.

I have no real neices or nephews but I am Aunty to 2 boys who are my friends children and also I am a great-aunt to my Husbands neices and nephews children. They (the neices/nephews) love calling me Great-Aunty to their children and find it funny as they are older than me (try and work that one out!) !! Funny! not!! lol

 

[pink.crazy]

Yeah my uncles wife is my auntie, but then OH's brother (the boys' uncle) has a gf, and she isn't "auntie" ... but I guess she may be/should be???? lol

 

[Lara310809]

I say my aunt and uncle, but my OH refers to them as "my uncle's wife". I think it's sad personally, because I see them as just as much my family as the blood relative

In regards to my brothers and their partners, if they were seeing someone new, I wouldn't automatically introduce them to my LO as "auntie ______", but wait until the relationship seemed more serious. I wouldn't wait until they got engaged, because some couples don't want to get married.

My OH's step-siblings (but he thinks of them as real siblings) don't refer to my OH as "uncle ______", even though they've lived together since my OH was 4 years old. Poor guy sees who he considers to be his niece and nephew, and they don't even recognise that he's family. Obviously, I'm not referred to as auntie, even though I've been with him since before the kids were born. Shame, because my OH doesn't have any blood siblings, so they would have been the nearest he ever had to being an uncle, and the nearest things to cousins for our kids. My brothers are in the UK, so it's not like our kids will all be really close.

 

[britt1986]

My uncles wife is my aunt and my aunt's husband is my uncle.

Just because they are not blood related doesn't mean they are not your aunt or uncle. Now, if your aunt or uncle got a divorce and married someone else, then No, I would not consider them an aunt or uncle. Hope everyone understands what I am trying to say.

 

[hopeandpray]

i like to think of the people that married into my extended family as extra special because they chose to be with us and our special family craziness

 

[Didz]

We call our brothers and sisters aunties and uncles and I also call my sisters boyfriend uncle. He love it, he's ever so proud lol. I call a select few of my closest friends aunty and uncle too. They're like family so our LO knows them as aunty and uncle. It's sweet because she loves them to bits and we can trust them with her. They're always happy to play on the floor with her or run after her if she's managed to crawl away and I can't get up quick enough lol.

 

[redi]

I'd say my uncles wife is my aunt and some of my aunts and uncles I call by their first names

 

[jackiea85]

I refer to my uncle's partner as my auntie but I don't usually call them uncle and auntie anyway, I call them by their first names and always have. They aren't married but have been together since I was about 10 and have 2 kids together so they might as well be. Since getting married my husband's niece and nephew now call me auntie Jackie, whereas before I was just Jackie x

 

[dizzyisacow]

Oddly enough the only person i ever called aunt/uncle is my husbands aunt/uncle! I do consider someone an aunt or uncle if they are just married to my blood aunt/uncle. But i would never ever consider someone that if they were just my parents friends

 

[PeanutBean]

I'm like that Dizzy. I've never really understood people having their children call all their parents' mates Aunt/Uncle. I just see these as terms to describe relations rather than necessarily having anything to do with affection.

 

[wantababybump]

I only call my blood uncles and aunts that. Their spouses I refer to as my uncles wife...etc and I call them by their first name... for example my uncle Vernon and Karen. I guess it's just the way my mom taught me as she believes the same thing that they arent actually blood 'aunt/uncle' so they arent called that. I have heard many people call both aunt and uncle and my cousin calls my mom her aunt even though it's only through marriage.

I have friends who call me aunty to their children and when Madison is born we have a few friends who will also be called aunty/uncle...I only have one brother and goodness knows when he will have children!! lol

My brother in law calls me aunt to their little boy. Haha so its kinda weird how some things change over time. Guess because it's how I was raised around my family..would be weird to call them anything else but with my new family (inlaws etc) it's not as weird for me!

 

[Scamp]

Yeah I'd call my uncles wife my aunt (just noticed how weird that spelling is, doesn't look right!)
But I do use their first names instead of saying Aunt and Uncle.
xx