Dawn weirdisms...

I like your weirdism, Dawn. And I have so many, I don't know that I could name them all here, darlin. Ok, here's one: I know that 'starboard' is on the right, and that 'port' is on the left. But I know this because 'starboard' has more letters than 'port', so it naturally belongs on the right. How's that for a weirdism? And my left foot is 'odd', my right foot 'even'. And I can do mirror writing....you know, when you write something backwards with your left hand, while writing the same thing forwards with your right. Weirdisms and weird things? Yup, I've got a few..........

I hope that he will be OK Dawn. That must be very scary for everyone. I have had "Aunts" and "Uncles" that were friends of my parents. I have sisters on here who I really do think of as sisters. Even though we've never met in the flesh. LOL. Crazy I know. But I genuinely ask for their opinions and take their advice.

hope he recovers soon!!1it takes some time to accept a new relation like a stepfather is most likely to be called by name by his step children.it takes then sometime to accept him.

Your reasoning makes perfect sense to me! I'd look at it exactly the same way. I'd probably have coutless weirdisms I think, but for the life of me I can't place my finger on any specific ones at this moment. Maybe that in itself is one of my weirdisms?

yea,we do that too.it's funny,one of my married-in aunts who actually divorced my uncle we still called aunt.she apologized for doing so,and we said "that's ok.we don't blame you.we know he's an a**hole.we're surprised you lasted this long" she seemed startled for a second,then laughed.she thought we were gonna turn our backs on her or something.

I think the same as you. I do have lots of wierdisms but limited time access to pc. Mine crashed. Just saying hello unti after Easter. Many blessings

Hope your aunt's husband is all right and my prayers for him to get stronger. Actually I have the same situation. My father's sister, so my aunt also remarried, so with her second husband I don't call him uncle either but his first name Walt.

That isn't all that weird, dawn. I mean if you didn't grow up thinking of him as an uncle, why would you now? It'd be weird. Likewise, my family had some close friends that they were so very close to that I called them aunt & Uncle. What a surprise to learn as I got older that there was no blood relation at all between us!

Hi Dawn. I think like you on that one too. Also when I was a kid ANY adult who was a friend of the family was called 'aunt' or 'uncle' by me. My mother taught us to do it that way even to the next door neighbour. Even now that I am olde(er ) I still call them in the same way. Some things just stick!

I totally understand your thought process there. I'd feel the same way. I have plenty of weirdisms... Okay, here's one. My husband thinks this is the weirdest thing in the world... I think it's normal... you tell me. I have different levels for different words. For instance "pretty" is higher up on the scale than "cute" and "beautiful" is better than "pretty". "Great" is better than "good" and "awesome" is better than "incredible". It totally drives my husband nuts because he's terrified he's going to use the wrong word to describe something. He's pretty much figured out my top word on any scale and uses that anytime it fits. I don't think he's ever called me "cute" which is good because then we probably wouldn't be married.. but he refers to his old high school girl friends as "cute"

It's interesting that you should mention this, my sister in law was my sister while by brother was alive, but now I think of her as his widow. Maybe it's because she is pulling away from his family I still love her as always it's just that the relationship has changed.

To call him" aunt husband " or uncle that's a habit and the name doesn't matter , what does matter is the respects!