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.

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

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.

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?"

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.

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

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

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

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

yes