Do you still refer to your aunts and uncles by that title?

[Anonymous]

yes

[Anonymous]

Yes, with the exception of one uncle who is only 8 years older than me. I'm in my 40s.

[Anonymous]

yes, and I'm 53 and she's 91 now.

[Anonymous]

Yes. And when my dad is talking to me about his brother he refers to him as "uncle mike".

[Anonymous]

Yes, both real aunts and uncles and "fake" aunts and uncles such as close family friends.

[Anonymous]

I still use it. Sometimes I just use their first names in conversation, but mostly I still use aunt and uncle before their first names.

[Anonymous]

I don't think I've ever called them "Aunt Lynn" to their face. Weird! Maybe sometimes when talking about an upcoming family event - "will Uncle Bob be there?"

[Anonymous]

Yes. Oddly I didn't use it in my teen years with my aunts and uncles that are only 10-15 years my senior (big family and my parents are at the top of their birth orders). I don't know why I stopped, but sometime in college I started back up- I'm in my mid-30s and call my youngest aunt 'Aunt X' who is only 44.

[Anonymous]

Yes. There is no awkward about it. He is your uncle and always your uncle. Address him as such.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I like calling them aunt and uncle, especially those I was close to growing up.
My blood aunt divorced, and I hadn't seen her ex in 8 years, since I was a teen. I saw him at a wedding, and still called him Uncle Mike.

I'm the same way. However, two of my uncles divorced and remarried when I was in my 20s and I can't bring myself to call their new spouses "Aunt Betty". I do refrain from calling my uncle's former mistress now wife "Homewrecker" to her face, which I think exercises great restraint. I also don't call him that.