Do you use "honey" as a term of endearment for your partner?

[ExJasper]

I always think of "honey" or "hon" as an American term of endearment but I'm hearing it used more frequently here. And I've just seen it on an advert.

It's not one that I'd use, seems a bit unnatural to me. Does anyone use it for their other halves?

Baby, sweetheart (pronounced schweedart in a jokey cockney voice a la my family), dickhead, fella and cuntus in this house. Child free house thus far so some of these will change I'm sure

Weirdly fine with baby but HATE babe, if he had said it early doors I would have been off! And if he used it now I would have stern words. Visceral reaction to that one.

My parents (both British) call each other honey.

I might use it occasionally, but it’s not one of my frequent ones.

It's the only thing I call my DH, if I ever have to say his name to him, it feels wrong! He calls me darling. Never uses my name. It's odd because we don't seem the type to use pet names and I don't know how it started, but we've done it from very early on. Never use any other terms of endearment for each other, so never hon or babes or anything else at all.
It actually really annoys me that we do it, but I don't think we could stop now, it's been 15 years! To the DCs and the cats he's Dad/Daddy (DCs grew out of daddy but cats don't).

Proud honey user here. And sweetheart, lovely, my love, darling, poppet, smorgeous, sexy. Thinking about it, seems really strange when we do call each other by our actual names, though he sometimes calls me by my initial.

Funnily enough my exH and I were the same way, and it’s really strange to when we call each other by our names when we meet up for coffee or whatever.

Not honey no, but we do use pretty much everything else. He called me hun once and I told him off. See also dear

We call each other babe, boo, bubba, sexy, gorgeous, sweetheart, daft variations of our names eg (Mark)ey doo, or (Claire) bear. He has also started calling me Tinkleberry, which just popped out one night (after I’d been to the loo ) and seems to have stuck!

But not honey. I think of that as American or maybe between glamorous ladies in the UK.

Thinking about it, seems really strange when we do call each other by our actual names

Same - he always laughs when I use his name!

Honey users here! We never really had any other pet names but that, although he does call me Boss, which started as a wind up and just stuck. Although it's more he calls me "mummy" and I call him "daddy" these days with DD around!

A DSis used to call her dh Warthog. In affectionate tones, of course.

We use 'hon', but slightly ironically. DH is American.

We call each other honey all the time. I also use darling and my beloved. I would never call him love.

There are two threads about terms of endearment tonight. Is a journo writing an article?

I'm deffo not a journalist @DianaT1969 :). Can't string a decent sentence together for one thing!

If I hear Hon, I hear it in Minnesotan, a la Fargo

I don't have any terms of endearment for my dh, but that might be because we're a hairs breadth away from separating and the only pet names I can think of are definitely derogatory.

No, I call him by his name. I do use "honey" sometimes when talking to my grandchildren, that's the only time though.

Yes.

I once used ‘honey bunny’ as a slightly sarcastic, purposely over the top, ridiculous term of endearment. But somehow it made an impression and has stuck! Now, I actually call DH ‘bunny’ in private and ‘honey’ in public.

So embarrassing! I’m going to hide in shame now. But without my bunny, because I am seriously pissed off with him today. Any one building a patio atm?

Love
Lovely
Darling
Sweetheart
Gorgeous

Written down looks a bit sickly.

No pet names at all here, I find them cringey.

Sweetheart, Arsewipe, Buttmunch are my terms of endearment

Arse-face and fart are our main ones for each other.

I call him honey day to day and in company, ‘husbo’ if I’m feeling a bit silly. He calls me honey or ‘wifesicle’.

No. We aren't the mum and dad out of Cocomelon.

I don't use any terms of endearment, they just sound strange to me. My DP calls me sweetheart or darling and I'm still not used to it. I don't know why I'm not keen on them. Because I'm weird, I guess.

No because I'm not American and it isn't the 1960s

My dad used to call me honeybunch. He's definitely English!

He calls me a short version of my name mainly, I call him a version of his name. I call him lovely too.