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

[Polyannatunnel]

It's driving me nuts!

It's more like 'my darling love'.

I prefer love cherry

My mum refers to the group of husbands amongst her friends as "the menfolk", it makes me want to kill her every time she says it

Kittsmummy Is she an extra from Game Of Thrones?

I find even 'husband' massively cringey. I still use 'partner' just as I did before we got married

Eeek. I do not like partner. My hubs is strictly 'husband'.

I always imagine the woman in American Gothic would refer to 'menfolk'.

Mumsnet is awful with the DH thing. Who dreamt that up? Darling husband? or is it dick head?

I knew someone that always referred to her husband as 'husby'.

I refuse to submit to 'DH'. End of story.

DH can be 'damn husband' too.

We need a new naming convention for non-hubbies (sorry). I hate referring to DP as my boyfriend when I'm knocking on 40. Partner feels a bit like you're trying to be mysterious and is a bit crap. I usually cop out and refer to him as my 'other half' which I don't really like either, suggesting that I'm not complete without him
Someone in all seriousness a few weeks ago suggested 'lover' bleugh....

I don't know , CookieWarbler, the guy I share my life with at the moment is a bit long. Maybe call him Brian and everyone with hubsies does the same?

I worked with a woman who called her husband by his full name, everytime, along with "big" because they'd called their son after him and he was "wee" so he was "my big John Smith" (not actually John Smith, but you get the drift). So if he'd made the dinner it'd be "my big John Smith made lasagne last night..." or if the teenager did something wrong it was "my wee John Smith is grounded because he came in late".

It was constant and so irritating because she rabbited about the two of them all bloody day long.

Can you retrain your brain to 'remember' her husband is called Hubert, rather than Steve or whatever he's called, so Hubby/Hubs is just a friendly abbreviation?

Can't help on The Bubs. Unless they're called Bubonica and Bubbles.

Love it, LaLyra, I shall call mine My Big Russell Reni2 from now on!

Totally agree on hubby, also hollibobs and jollies as in 'we're off on our jollies tomorrow'. Yesterday smug mum said in front of me 'WE got pregnant in the October', just WOW.

My retired DH and his siblings still refer to their dead parents as mummy and daddy. It's an Irish thing.

I like littlun.

why can't you refer to your husband as "husband"? What else can you call him? If I mention Muhammad/ Oliver/ Jack/ Noah (insert own name...) to a non family member, how the hell are they supposed to know who I am talking about?

Just confused on that one

'Hubby' 'other half' and even worse 'better half' just gives me the rage!!! What wrong with calling him 'my husband?' Hate all that twee rubbish. And DO. NOT. START. ME. on 'my mummy friends' give me strength......

YABNU on here, on FB and in RL it makes me want to pull my ears/eyeballs off.

Just stop it.

It's husband here, can't be doing with anything else.
And not to hijack the thread or anything, but wrt pp about ICE numbers. If you have an iPhone you can click on the 'health' app, in the bottom right corner is 'medical id'. You can add several phone numbers plus medical info which is then accessible when your phone is locked via the emergency call screen. Just sayin....

My retired DH and his siblings still refer to their dead parents as mummy and daddy. It's an Irish thing. I went to college with a Northern Irish student. She always talked about Mummy and Daddy. I thought it was lovely.
I always say 'my husband' with a degree of sarcasm when I'm up here in Scotland. None of them know his name so there's no point in saying it. Also it's an Irish name and all the people here are Scottish Protestant farmers.

I would hazard a guess that once 'hubby' is caught in a sordid affair or exposed as a regular down at the local brothel or has other unsavoury hobbies exposed he is NEVER referred to as 'ex-hubby'!

CalonDu that made me laugh out loud. I would ask her but now the induction is over I can safely retreat to my office and let my blood pressure get back to normal.
I honestly don't know what got into me today, I just found it so jarring everytime I heard it.
Anyway. Nos Da