To hate it when bloggers/posters refer to their husband/partner and children as 'The Boyfriend' 'The Husband' or 'The Boy'

[HopefulAnnie]

I'm reading a blog where the lady is married to a russian and she refers to him as The Russky whenever she mentions him.......

I understand it's to protect privacy, etc. But when they put 'The' before it, I instantly hate the blog/post as it just sounds so wanky.

Anyone else feel the same? Or am I alone in my-madness this?

Not something that winds me up.. which is lucky since DS1 is often 'the boy' or 'the larger one' and DS2 is 'the small one'

not sure why... it's not as if they don't have perfectly good names and nicknames to.

You've clearly never encountered the MNer who refers to her H as The Manshape .

YANBU. It's beyond irritating and done to death.

Doesn't AA Gill refer to his DW in his reviews as The Blonde? Yuck.

The Blonde?? That deeply irritates me, I would not be able to read any of his reviews.

I like manshape!!

I refer to dh as The first MrCatsmamma

...just to keep him on his toes.

When I can't remember the children's names when I am calling for them, they sometimes get called The Girl One or The Boy One.

I hate it too and, sorry Dino, I don't like people referring to their children by number - I have a friend with four sons and they refer to them as son number one, son number two etc - I find it really irritating, why not use their names ?

Thought of something else that really irritates me as well (I am on a roll now) when people refer to their own child as 'my son' (or my daughter) in an overly proud and boastful way - ie: 'isn't my son a clever little boy' - as if they are expecting the glory to reflect back on them. I suppose saying 'isn't Tarquin a clever little boy' is probably equally as irritating.

Oh I can't stand MYson, MY dd as well!

ragwort, do you never forget their names briefly? I'm always getting them muddled up and it shouldn't be that hard. One is a 3 year whirlwind boy and one is a placid, quiet 1 year old girl, yet I will call them the other one's name.

YANBU, it winds me right up.

Another one is when non-celebs choose to add a "the" infront of their name to make up their Twitter username. "TheJoeBloggs" - jog on! Come to think about it, when celebs do this it is also annoying...

Even The Hoff?

I think the twitter thing is often because people have already nicked their names.

I called my dh 'himself' on my blog. It was from something that happened and I still sometimes refer to him as it even though I don't blog. If you don't like it, don't read the fucking blog.

I find 'The Boy/Man' thing annoying also.

Same as seeing 'my lil man' written about toddlers on facebook.

Ps. Baha at 'Tarquin' - why is that the standard boy name of annoying parents?

I find it annoying too. I have friend who is always updating her fb with 'the boy wants to watch football' 'the boy is hungover' etc about her dp. Another friend updates all day with 'the toddler' did this and that. What's worse though is she hashtags #SAHM at the end!

I don't think you can win, really - whatever you do will irritate somebody. I find "dh" irritating.

Ooh yes, 'the husband' really grates.

A naff affectation which is very tired these days.

But a son being referred to as 'Little man' or 'lil man' is the most dreadful of the lot and would be illegal if I ruled the world.

It is incredibly dated. It seems really lazy now. I can't read one of the columns in Red because of it, Rosie someone? It drives me so mad.

Yes and the more twee the first 'sweet girl' is one a blogger I see uses a lot, why not say my daughter! But then I don't like DS DH DD etc, things like DS is only saving one letter, you could just say son!

Should of said worst not first

It took me ages to shrug off the fact that every one on here refers to their husband as DH. I loathe it! I also got flamed in the first days for daring to call my DH 'hubby'. Whilst it's not to others taste, we are 'hubby' and 'wifey' to each other. Nobody else has to like it.

YANBU. (bit I am slightly biased, as I have an irrational hatred of bloggers anyway! except mmelindor and overmydeadbody )

Yes it is horribly affected.

I get irrationality annoyed when people write/say 'I wastalking to dad' or 'tthat's typical of mum' I feel like saying 'they're not my mum and dad'

I hate everything mentioned so far and everything yet to be mentioned. Say 'my husband' or his name or nothing at all.