My sister is having her best friend be called aunt

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The most important thing will be the relationship you have with your nibling and that will not be determined by what others are called.

What is a nibling?

Probably a term now for someone who is your sibling but not your bio sibling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The most important thing will be the relationship you have with your nibling and that will not be determined by what others are called.

What is a nibling?

Probably a term now for someone who is your sibling but not your bio sibling.

It’s a niece or nephew.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The most important thing will be the relationship you have with your nibling and that will not be determined by what others are called.

What is a nibling?

It’s your sibling’s niblets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The most important thing will be the relationship you have with your nibling and that will not be determined by what others are called.

What is a nibling?

Probably a term now for someone who is your sibling but not your bio sibling.

Or you could Google before guessing incorrectly. Slang might not be your strong suit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The most important thing will be the relationship you have with your nibling and that will not be determined by what others are called.

What is a nibling?

Probably a term now for someone who is your sibling but not your bio sibling.

Or you could Google before guessing incorrectly. Slang might not be your strong suit.

Wow rude much? She was just making a guess. Also who uses slang if they are a fully educated adult. Use real words

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am with OP in that I would not like it but I probably wouldn’t bring it up as it’s not my child. Side note, I hate the term “god mommy.” My husband and I fought over this term and its usage.

How is even your business to have an opinion on this?? Do you not allow your friends to have other friends also. People including siblings are allowed to have other people they love in their life and you don't get to have an opinion on that

Also Jesus Christ this girl has been her friend practically her whole life this isn't a new friend so by no means does it "water down" anything. Chances are these friends have been friends for almost as long as OP and her sister have been sisters. Blood doesn't make or break a relationship.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The most important thing will be the relationship you have with your nibling and that will not be determined by what others are called.

What is a nibling?

Probably a term now for someone who is your sibling but not your bio sibling.

Or you could Google before guessing incorrectly. Slang might not be your strong suit.

Wow rude much? She was just making a guess. Also who uses slang if they are a fully educated adult. Use real words

DP. It's in Merriam Webster, the Cambridge dictionary, and at Dictionary.com, and none of these identify it as slang, as far as I can see. It has been around since the 1950s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The most important thing will be the relationship you have with your nibling and that will not be determined by what others are called.

What is a nibling?

Probably a term now for someone who is your sibling but not your bio sibling.

Or you could Google before guessing incorrectly. Slang might not be your strong suit.

Wow rude much? She was just making a guess. Also who uses slang if they are a fully educated adult. Use real words

You said rude much and then criticized people for using slang. That’s hypocrisy, unlike what PP was calling hypocrisy earlier in the thread, for the record.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am with OP in that I would not like it but I probably wouldn’t bring it up as it’s not my child. Side note, I hate the term “god mommy.” My husband and I fought over this term and its usage.

I’m with op as well but don’t feel it would be my right to dictate to sibling.

Even though OP's sister and her very best friend have been friends almost their whole lives and most likely friends almost as long as they have been sisters?

How is OP almost 30 and this type of jealousy that her sister has other important people in her life even exist. She doesn't own her sister or her sister's kids and get to "stake claim" on them. If you are 18+ this shouldn't even be your mindset.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The most important thing will be the relationship you have with your nibling and that will not be determined by what others are called.

What is a nibling?

Probably a term now for someone who is your sibling but not your bio sibling.

Or you could Google before guessing incorrectly. Slang might not be your strong suit.

Wow rude much? She was just making a guess. Also who uses slang if they are a fully educated adult. Use real words

DP. It's in Merriam Webster, the Cambridge dictionary, and at Dictionary.com, and none of these identify it as slang, as far as I can see. It has been around since the 1950s.[/quote

Just so you know the dictionary starts to add words that people start using incorrectly and begin to call it a word because they are too stupid to use the word correctly. It's the dumbing down of society and the dictionary caters to that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am 28 almost 29 years old with 2 older sisters. My oldest sister has 2 children of her own and my other sister is pregnant with her first. In our culture we are very big on only actual aunts and uncles being called aunt and uncle. My sister's very best friend she has since 3rd grade she is going to have her child call her aunt. I am a little hurt by this because I feel like it takes away and waters down the people who are actually the child's aunt. I addressed this with my sister and she said I'm being ridiculous as it's not like she is having every friend be called aunt and it's just her very best friend that she has been friends with for 20+ years. It's still a friend and not an aunt.

Am I being irrational?

Are you perpetually single? Freeze your eggs right now.

[Anonymous]

I'm going to speak from the perspective of a very close best friend of someone that I have been friends with for 30+ years. My friend does have one sister and the sister and I are close as well just from me being friends with her sister for so long.

I would be hurt if my best friend stopped referring to me as aunt to her child because her sister didn't like it. It would show her sister's feelings trumped mine. Now if my friend didn't want to call me aunt I wouldn't be the least but offended or bothered but if she stopped it on account of someone else's feelings that wasn't her or her husband (the father) I would be hurt that the other person's feelings mattered over how close she saw our friendship.

I think after so long friends start to fall more into the family category.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am 28 almost 29 years old with 2 older sisters. My oldest sister has 2 children of her own and my other sister is pregnant with her first. In our culture we are very big on only actual aunts and uncles being called aunt and uncle. My sister's very best friend she has since 3rd grade she is going to have her child call her aunt. I am a little hurt by this because I feel like it takes away and waters down the people who are actually the child's aunt. I addressed this with my sister and she said I'm being ridiculous as it's not like she is having every friend be called aunt and it's just her very best friend that she has been friends with for 20+ years. It's still a friend and not an aunt.

Am I being irrational?

Are you perpetually single? Freeze your eggs right now.

Right? If OP didn't say her age I would have guessed 17 or 18 at the most. The whole because she is my sister so she isn't allowed to have any other close friends in her life screams immaturity to me.

Kind of like those people you know in high school who get possessive over their friends and whose friends aren't allowed to have any other friends that aren't in their direct social circle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The most important thing will be the relationship you have with your nibling and that will not be determined by what others are called.

What is a nibling?

Probably a term now for someone who is your sibling but not your bio sibling.

Or you could Google before guessing incorrectly. Slang might not be your strong suit.

Wow rude much? She was just making a guess. Also who uses slang if they are a fully educated adult. Use real words

DP. It's in Merriam Webster, the Cambridge dictionary, and at Dictionary.com, and none of these identify it as slang, as far as I can see. It has been around since the 1950s.[/quote

Just so you know the dictionary starts to add words that people start using incorrectly and begin to call it a word because they are too stupid to use the word correctly. It's the dumbing down of society and the dictionary caters to that.

Okay. Just so you know you are trying to redefine "after 70 years of use" as "start using," and it's not a good look, in context.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to speak from the perspective of a very close best friend of someone that I have been friends with for 30+ years. My friend does have one sister and the sister and I are close as well just from me being friends with her sister for so long.

I would be hurt if my best friend stopped referring to me as aunt to her child because her sister didn't like it. It would show her sister's feelings trumped mine. Now if my friend didn't want to call me aunt I wouldn't be the least but offended or bothered but if she stopped it on account of someone else's feelings that wasn't her or her husband (the father) I would be hurt that the other person's feelings mattered over how close she saw our friendship.

I think after so long friends start to fall more into the family category.

Yeah some people on here are acting like the OP's sister met these people a day ago and are giving them the aunt title or every acquaintance she meets in the grocery store she has her kids call them aunt