To find it odd my brother still calls family friends

[AdrienneVole]

Auntie and Uncle?

Mostly they are a very distant relative but he calmly tells me he saw Auntie Carol and Uncle Colin in Tesco.

I am 35 and he is 38 ffs!

i find it weird when the dh/dw calls their in laws Mum and Dad. it's odd. far odder

How many people havent read the OP properly and answered regarding their ACTUAL aunties and uncles

I grew up with an aunt Perla and uncle Jim who were just my granny's freinds - I called them uncle and auntie right up until they passed away when I was in my mid 30's

I'm 48 and still call my Father's siblings Auntie name and Uncle name. Most of my 28 older cousins still call them Auntie and Uncle too.

My 6 yo niece calls me just Auntie (about 20 times an hour). I'm not sure if she knows my first name .

When I was small, I had a school friend that used to call her neighbours Auntie or Uncle - I thought it was strange even then! It does sound quite cringeworthy when an adult still says it.

Mind you, in my family, we have never even used aunt or uncle for actual relatives.

MIL's best friends are called Aunty and Uncle by DH's family. I call them Aunty and Uncle.
There is a lady I've always called Nanny because I've taught 6 of her grandchildren.

I always called my grandmother 'Nanny,' my sister did too,even as adults.

Half the town where they lived is full of adults we call Auntie and Uncle

I still call my godfather Uncle, and until she died called my SILs MIL "Granny". That's more about the kind of relationships I have/had with them and nothing to do with what someone else told me to call them. I definitely don't make my own kids call my friends Aunty or Uncle, like my mother did.

I call my SIL's Aunty Auntie X. Always have! No relation of mine, but she answers to it just fine

I forgot to say, my actual nieces and nephews don't always call me Aunty Zippy. It depends on the situation, Aunty is much more likely when they want something! It feels a bit odd because none of them are that much younger than me. I don't really care what name they use, so long as it's friendly.

YANBU.

I stopped calling family and friends aunty and uncle as soon as I was an adult.

It sounds strange to me.

I now call family friends by their first names, but there were some (now dead) whom I addressed as Auntie or Uncle well into adulthood - they preferred it and it seemed a small thing to do given how kind they'd always been to me.

I still call my parents Mummy and Daddy to their face or or occasionally Mama and Papa (although when speaking of them to others I refer to my mother and father). I'm in my 30s. Mum and Dad just aren't names I'd use- I think it's a family/regional/class culture thing, a bit like how I can't quite bring myself to say 'toilet' or 'living room'.

And no, I'm not a snob who minds others using those words... they just don't feel natural for me to say.

I've just remembered that DD calls her (23yo) babysitter's mother "Auntie Anne". So it's not dying out after all!
I may be wrong, but it seems more of a Northern thing to me...

I think it's a bit like those primary school teachers that will only ever be Mrs Magoo or Mr Magee. No matter that they've told you that you can call them Mary or John and you are now a fully fledged adult, it just feels wrong to call them by their first name.

See, this is my problem because my mum taught at my primary school so many of her old friend are my former teachers which means I autocorrect to Mrs Teacher's-name when my mum talks about them and have to try and avoid calling them anything when I see them!

I still call some family friends Aunty or Uncle, and I'm 45.

If you're reading, Hello to Aunty Doreen, Uncle Richard Next Door etc.

In my Mum's world we also call people things like "Richard from your Sister's Year's Mum", or " Mrs W, Paula's Mum", or "You know, the lady round the corner who lived next door to the man who had the gun".

We all know who she means, so no need to know their names.

I live next door to Carol and Colin... misses point

Doesn't Bridget Jones still call her parents' neighbours Auntie and Uncle, thinking about it? :)

I find it quite twee but funny as well :)

I'm 46 and still do this.

So is one expected to drop the 'Auntie' and 'Uncle' once one is an adult OP?
I think you may be confused with the whole point of using those titles. Do you think once a person themself becomes an adult then those titles no longer apply?

I use first names for my own family but bizzarely for my husbands I use aunty and uncle etc. I don't know why, simply everyone calls them that. And they are all quite ancient,

I also had to call his gran "gran", I suspect because no one could remember her real name. Sadly when she got dementia it led to her recognising none of her family inc grandkids and thinking I really was her grandkid. Made family gatherings really very awkward indeed.😱

I don't know Imsick; I don't have any aunts or uncles. Well, one aunt - dads sister - but we don't speak to her. I just find it quite funny that my brother, who is nearly in his 40s, refers to our parents' old friends as auntie/uncle, as we were made to as little children :)

I still call my parents' friends Aunts and Uncles! It would feel strange just to use their first names. Rude, somehow.

However, I find it very difficult to address people in "authority" by their first names. I'm a 35-year-old mature student and I still feel weird calling my supervisors by their first names instead of "Dr. Jones" etc., even though some of them are my age or even younger...

On another note, does anyone else find it weird when modern names are Aunted and Uncled?? Like, I'm used to aunts named Edith and uncles named Stanley. Aunt Olivia and Uncle Mark sound weird somehow!

OP there's nothing funny about it. Of course you continue to call your parents friends Aunty and uncle if that's how you were raised. The point is you are showing respect to your PARENTS friends, they are not your mates! Most people, and I say 'most' very carefully, continue with those titles till the grave. You're not going to wake up one morning and call Uncle bob, 'Bob'

My cousin is in his 50s and he calls my mum by her first name, which seems a bit odd to me. I call his mum Aunty Delta not just Delta. I hate my DNs calling me Aunty Mikeuniform though, they should call me Mike.

Are you normally this horrible about your brother? Let's face it, you started this thread in the hopes that everyone would come on and laugh at how ridiculous your brother is. What business is it of yours if he still refers to his Aunt and Uncle as a Aunt and Uncle?

Frankly OP, you sound very unpleasant.