about a colleague who constantly refers to her husband as 'hubby'

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It's driving me nuts!

I don't see the problem

Irritates the hell out of me too. But then again, I am exceptionally unreasonable.

Doesnt bother me.

YABU - I can think of many things which would drive me nuts, what a colleague calls her husband is not one of them.

Throw a stapler at her.

Why not just use his name though? I don't get it.

YANBU. I would judge her massively, think she's a massive twat and might even try to kill her.

Does she say 'hubby and I went to the cinema', 'hubby made a shepherd's pie last night'?

Like, 'my hubby likes coffee too' or literally using it instead of his name? First is irritating, second would make me wonder if he had an embarrassing name and she didn't want to say it, like... Cuthbert.

Always saying 'hubby' instead of his actual name is massively unreasonable.

It's naff but not illegal. Put up with it.

If you're being unreasonable about that then I must be being unreasonable about my colleague who calls her friends "my mummy friends". They're the people she's met through attending playgroups etc but it winds me up no end - just call them "my friends".

I think part of me would wither and die if I ever referred to my husband as hubby.

And then I'd have to fall on my sword letter opener from the shame of it all.

Yes using it instead of his name 'oh hubby likes to do that' 'just had a text off hubby he's gone cycling'
Actually it's just dawned on me how pathetic I sound. Must be late afternoon low sugar levels making me irritable

Could be worse...she could say HUBSTER

or MrHusbandPerson

or Mr Husband Man

YANBU - HATE the word hubby with a passion!

I just heard 'hubs'. I'm off to get a chunky kitkat

Before getting married I got sick of saying 'fiancé', just felt like it came across that I was trying to make sine sorry of point - which I wasn't. Suppose it didn't help that a colleague used to say "... your boyfriend, oh sorry, fiancé... " so she may have put the worry into my head. Realistically the vast majority of people do not care whether their colleague has a boyfriend, a fiancé, a husband, a hubby, a wife, a dozen cats, whatever.

YANBU, too twee for my liking, enjoy the KitKat

Knew someone who called her dp "my lover". Nothing wrong with that, you say, maybe even romantic? Yes, quite, only I imagined her having SEX every time. I'm easily spooked.

Couples who refer to each other as Mummy and Daddy..........long after their children have grown up.

Freaks.

It wouldn't drive me nuts, I hope, but it would really make me cringe. I would find myself replying with very pointed use of the term "your husband" or whatever his name was. People who constantly call their husband "hubby" or "hubs" give the impression that they only validate themselves by reference to the fact that they've managed to hook a man and get him up the aisle; it sounds like they feel they have to keep reminding other people that they've caught a husband. It also feels as if they don't value their husband for the person he is but for his status. Bleurrgggh.

Hubs

Obviously OP you are entirely unreasonable.

Enjoy your kitkat