To ask him not to call me 'angel'

[JackyDanny]

Just that really.
My boyfriend of 9 months keeps calling me 'angel'
I have never liked it but this eve as we were signing off, he messaged 'good night angel' I replied 'I prefer you call me jacky, goodnight'

Aibu?
Feel like I may be.
Especially as he has been doing it for 9 months.

I can think of worse names. However, if you don't like being called 'angel' tell him not to call you that.

My Wife most of the time refers to me as Mr Grumpy and has a ringtone that sings Mr Grumpy.

Dh's ex wife has the same name as me which very handy as he is so the type to use the wrong name. In the early days he would say my name and then go "oh sorry i meant to say .. Oh no hang on no that's right" and then try and dig himself out of a hole for the next thirty minutes

I am not an angel by any stretch, nor do I look angelic...

I might follow up with, only Bowie can call me that

True, there are worse names to be called. I think I am a temperamental wotsit and should stay single!

Thank you for the video partialderivative - that went straight to me legs.

Be careful, if you suspect it's the same name he's used for previous girlfriends/wives then it can indicate that he sees you as interchangeable which is pretty crappy.

I don't mind pet names but I don't think I'd want a recycled one! :)

Aw my DH calls me angel, although when doing it via text he writes angle which makes me laugh.

He also calls me princess, babe, gorgeous, beautiful and hunny bunny

Only one i never liked was 'luv' hate anybody calling me love so i nipped that in the bud.

YANBU but probably didn't come across well with that text.

I have a particular hatred of Angel as a 'pet' name. Friends twatty ex used it all the time. All women were angels until they weren't then they were silly bitches or whores.

I was both

Himself and I have various silly names for each other but they are very much relayed to events or experiences we have had rather than a generic one size fits all.

My ex used to call me sugar and doll and i loved it 'cause i loved him.....sorry.Not much help...

YANBU. Is he trying to be Robin Thicke?!!! Does he put an emphasis on the "e" at the end?

Ah it sounds sweet. My dh calls me God. Fairly appropriate I feel. ??

My ex OM used to call me Angel.
Raven haired beauty was another one he called me.
Sweetheart
and my real pet hate......"babe" But mostly it was Angel.

Would have been nicer to hear my name more often both in bed and out of it.

It might be habitual, DP has always called me 'hun' and I just get on with it because it's his go to pet name I would call him 'babycakes' as an act of revenge, but now this has become habitual so we have this hideous back and forth of vile pet names and everyone thinks we are gross and weird, even us!

My grandad calls me Angel, or worse, 'Ange.' It makes me cringe but he's an old man and very lovely so I let it slide

My dp calls me all sorts of names, but to be fair he never calls me anything I've asked him not to. I would tell him not to call me Angel.

Much as I love David, I wouldn't like him to call me Angel. Or babe, hun or anything else .

Try this response:

In the words of Charlotte Bronte/Jane Eyre after being referred to as an angel (may not be an exact book quote, it's a line from a theatre adaptation I'm learning)

"I am not an angel. I will be myself. Mr Rochester, you must not expect anything celestial of me any more than I shall expect the same of you. We must neither of us be disappointed in the other."

Then watch his jaw drop in confusion!

YANBU by the way, that would set my teeth on edge.

S'pose it's more polite than fecker, or twattyfalatty, although DH has only ever called me those names, so at least they aren't recycled.

I'm special .