After seeing this comment yesterday, I decided to back away and think about it, and reconsider what I'd written. Because yeah, sometimes I can get seriously spergy, and take things too far.
Having done that, I stand by everything I've said.
Corissa's behavior is creepy and inappropriate, and even if it's close family (nieces/nephews), it oversteps a boundary that should exist between an adult and kids who are not their own.
And I don't care if the parents are going along with it—parents go along with far worse shit these days, and the kinds of people who would have no trouble with Corissa (and Juliana) having an influence on their children don't exactly have the best judgment.
I don't believe there is anything remotely sexual about it, but it is manipulative, and her motives for doing it are questionable. So again, I stand by what I said.
She can't have kids of her own (and frankly, she'd resent and neglectthem Kelly Lenza-style if she did), so she co-opts other people's children. She thus gets to enjoy all the fun parts of being around kids, while assuming none of the responsibility for them.
And yeah, wanting to be the "cool auntie" who kids turn to as confessor and advisor, who gets to be the sympathetic, understanding adult kids can trust when they don't think they can talk to their parents, is a role I can see her embracing. Given the right "auntie," who knows she's an intermediary between child and parent, it can be a healthy relationship. But, given Corissa's Narcissism, she's never going to be the right "auntie."
Oh, good lord. Corissa, honey, other than finding some joint compound Pete left behind, there is nothing you can do about those pores. That horse left the barn years (and countless garbage calories) ago.