This Troper's father's best friend is an honorary uncle to me.

A two-way street. This troper's mother worked in the children's ministries for years. Two girls actually adopted themselves into the family, with their entire family becoming part of our family. Not only did the two become our cousins and call my mother their auntie, my siblings and I always called their parents 'Auntie and uncle' and they always called us their neices and nephews.

This troper's childhood best friend (and said friend's three younger siblings) called her parents Auntie Donna and Uncle Bill. (Oddly, theirs were never Aunt Marylee or Uncle John to me.) We've been more or less out of contact since high school graduation, but the last time we saw each other, my mom still got Auntie.

This troper has a much older second cousin whom he has always referred to as "Big Uncle".

ThisTroper's mother's best friend and her family are as close as family. The best friend grew up with my mother and they've been best friends since ''sixth grade''. They then proceeded to get pregnant at about exactly the same time. The only reason that I don't call them "aunt", "uncle" or "cousin" is because I have never called my biological aunts and uncles "Aunt Alice" and "Uncle Bob."

This troper's three godchilden refer to him as "uncle," mainly because for all practical purposes that's exactly what he is to them.

This troper grew up calling many close family friends Auntie and Uncle, and it was only until this troper was five or seven that she found out they weren't actually related.

When I was young, two sets of neighbors were fictive grandparents. Now my mother seems to have picked up the tradition with the new neighbors.

My dad grew up next door to a family that they considered honorary family. We still consider them family, and share family events.

This troper probably has more honorary aunts and uncles than actual aunts and uncles- mostly my mother's friends from work (she's a teacher). This gets especially funny because I work with a lot of my mom's former students, and the look of horror when they realize that the Aunt Betty I casually referred to is their math teacher is so much fun.

This Troper's mother has been best friends with a woman since Second Grade! She and her late husband are as much my Aunt and Uncle as any biological branches on the family tree.

This Troper's mom has been close with her best friend since they were in Middle School and lucky for them, her husband and my dad have a lot in common and have become friends. As a result, they've always been Aunt Jackie and Uncle Joe to me. I'm pretty sure it's vice-versa as well.

This troper has an honorary elder brother. We go everywhere together, have fun together, go through troubles together, and so on. It's all no fun until you know that he is old enough to be my father.

For a long time me and my brother used to call my mom's 2 best friends "aunt". Now that we're older we just call them by their regular names (and, due to an incident I won't detail here ((though it is detailed elsewhere on this site)) one of them is now more my dad's friend).

This troper had heard about one of her mom's former doctors for her entire life. Troper's mom recently started seeing him again, so he is now "Uncle Cliffy" whenever troper answers the phone.

This Troper is an Honorary Uncle to his best friend's neice, due to the family closeness and the fact that the neice's grandmother raises her (her mom kidnapped the twin half-sisters from their custodial father, tried that with the niece and is now on the run and the dad is a deadbeat) and I see her every time I visit. In an inversion, he refers to his Aunt-In-Laws as cousins, partly because saying Aunt-In-Law is a pain, and partly because he can't get his head around calling people who are two and one year(s) older than him "Aunt".

This troper had his mother's friend and her son living with his family from early childhood. She was (and is) "Aunt Teresa"; her son, on the other hand, is the troper's honorary older brother.

{{Gender Flip}}ped version: when I was little, there was a good friend of my grandmother's who I always knew as Teta Marika. The context being that she and my grandmother were both Macedonian, while I only spoke English. It was several years before I found out that "Teta" wasn't her first name, and was in fact Macedonian for "Aunt".

Curtis, the man who helps take care of my grandfather we decided was essentially an Honorary Uncle. My dad and actual uncles all have first names beginning with "J", so we deemed our new uncle "Jurtis". Jurtis is a black man and my family is very white and Jewish...

When I was little we had a neighbour who was my mums best friend, and we always called her Aunt. At the moment, an older friend of mine, who is like a mother to me, seems to have adopted me as her niece, and reminds me of that whenever I am upset or need her help.

I actually asked my mom, "How many sisters do you have?" Her response: "Four biological and two adopted." One of the "two adopted" is no longer in our lives, but the other will always be "Aunt" to me.

I am an honorary sister/aunt to a friend's little siblings. They even call me Ate (ah-TAY), which is a Filipino word for 'big sister.' It's a pretty awesome feeling.

Is there a trope for Honorary Mom? Pfft. Well, anyway, when my uncle's wife passed on, this troper took it upon herself to help raise their (at the time) five year-old daughter (troper was sixteen at the time). The girl is about to turn ten now, and it just finally struck her that I' actually her cousin, not her mom. She just informed me that it doesn't matter, since I'll always be mommy anyway. :') She's an awesome kid, she is!

This Troper has a "sister" that is "related under the Goddess, not by blood." This sister has a kid. Considering that I've worked to put food on her table, paid for her education, bought her first box of condoms, introduced her to RockyHorrorPictureShow, ridden with her in an ambulance when she broke her leg, gone with her mom to parent-teacher conferences, etc...I'm her "Aunt Jessie," and she's my niece. Blood ''doesn't matter.''

This troper's mother hires Troper and her husband to babysit her three spoiled dogs. The dogs think that our names are "Aunt Troper" and "Uncle Troper's Husband." We don't know why.

Another Gender Flipped version here. (Two, actually). I call my godmother 'Aunty', think of her as an aunt and therefore her sons as cousins, despite calling them godbrothers once. My godmother's granddaughter calls me Aunty.

This Troper's family and a friend's family adopted each other many years ago - I was in the wedding party at their wedding, and in a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming my father was referred to in the reception speech as the father of the groom (a gesture which touched my father deeply). The boys go fishing, BBQ, and do other typical father/son things regularly, and we've all been on holiday together several times. My friend's young daughter calls me "Aunty", and calls my father "Grandad".

This troper and her best friend have decided in advance that should either of us have children, the other will be the honorary "Auntie".

This troper's best friends (he's closer to them than he is to most of his biological family) have always been adamantly against the concept of honorary aunts and uncles. He went to visit them at the hospital the day their son was born. The first words he heard as he entered the room were "Oh, he's here. Hi, Uncle Dan!" He considers it his CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming. And two years on, he's starting to hear it from his nephew's mouth. (And he's getting a little misty-eyed just writing this.)

One of this troper's is now her stepfather. It's complicated, but it actually made things considerably less awkward after the marriage, since I already knew him well.

Inversion: My grandmother's friend is so close to our family, we pretty much call her our aunt and see her at most of our family gatherings.

This Troper's friend is pregnant, and her sister-in-law doesn't want to be called "Auntie" as it sounds "Too Old" so she's going to be "Uncle Stacy" to balance things out, I'm going to be "Auntie Scott"

Age subversion at this Troper's primary school. Year 6 (oldest year) was routinely refered to with an Auntie/Uncle prefix by the Headteacher/Class teacher, a jovial middle-aged-to-elderly man.

I (Jill Bug) used to have "Aunt Violet," "Aunt Elaine" and "Uncle Frank", who were actually close friends of the family. Now that one of my friends has children of her own, I'm Auntie Jillian to them.

My cousin and I are both only children. Knowing how important having aunts has been in both our lives we have promised to be aunties to each other’s children. That is if either of us ever have any in the future. She’s 11.

My dad kept in touch with several of his college classmates (he's in his 60's now), especially those who also moved to the US and started families here, and growing up my brother and I called them Uncle whatever (and by extension Aunt whatever for their wives). We were around them a lot more than our real uncles (and really, all our relatives outside the immediate family), partly because the latter were all in Taiwan and we live in New Jersey (my mom and dad were the first in their families to move overseas, and for all intents and purposes the only ones). I suspect this was intentionally done so that my brother and I would have a surrogate type of extended family to call on, since there would be both an 8000+ mile and a language and culture barrier separating us from our real extended family (though I've never asked - it seems too cynical for me to do so).

My aunt has a friend who has become really close to our family, and would join us for occasions like Christmas. She's pretty much like an aunt to me.

My mother's boss is like an uncle to this troper. I was a bridesmaid in his daughter's wedding.

My close friend has said she will have her children refer to me as an uncle when we arnt related by blood

This troper met her honorary older brother when she was a freshman and he was a senior in high school; she had a bit of a crush on him, but got over it. Three years ago, he got a finacee. Guess who has an honorary older sister?

Im(male) practically this waiting to happen considering how my best friend who is pretty much my platonic life partner definitely wants kids someday, and i love kids, i can picture them calling me their uncle

My dad's fellow sailor was as good as an uncle to me. He committed suicide back in 2007 and his death still haunts me to this day.

My mum (who likes to act posh) considers this common. She doesn't even like it with real aunts and uncles, therefore I call my aunts Shan and Laura just by just their first names; same goes for Brian and Ollie. However my dad's sister Caroline I do sometimes call "auntie Caz" because he and my step-mum have done. I don't mind the trope myself, I've just been brought up not to do it.