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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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To ask you if you 'hubby'?

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MitzyLeFrouf · 17/11/2015 22:05

Not a thread about a thread but a thread inspired by a thread.

I've noticed a lot of 'hubby' references on MN in the last few months. This is new isn't it? I thought the average MNer was as allergic to 'hubby' as Gremlins are to water and being fed after midnight.

So do you 'hubby' or do you snub(by) 'hubby'?

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Tootsiepops · 18/11/2015 03:00

Hubby makes my skin crawl, but so does 'DH' etc.

However, it's not as bad as all the childish language used on boards by women who are trying to get pregnant. Af? It's a period for fuck's sake

CantSee4Looking · 18/11/2015 03:14

It used to be there was only 1 person who used it really on mn. I got flamed something rotten for saying I hated the word. Not even flame retardant would have saved me. It was a much love member of royalty at the time.
Which does actually show things have changed as there is not the historic knickers in a twist about questioning this.

I fucking hate the word hubby.

ExBallerina · 18/11/2015 03:32

I don't like hubby, hun(ny/ie) or wifey.

My daughter is Bubby since day 1, and will be until she's 40.

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 18/11/2015 03:55

Can't do "hubby" or "hubster" or any variation thereof. DH gets called by his name, or "HUSBAND!" when he can't hear me (no hard consonants in his name, so hard to really shout it).

I do twee names for the boys though. And I'm not bothered if DH calls me "wifey" as he only does it when he's being romantic (we don't DO romantic).

I rarely "hun". Actually no, I never "hun" - but I have used "honey" before (yes spelt like that not the Pooh bear version).

NinjaLeprechaun · 18/11/2015 04:19

"My daughter is Bubby since day 1, and will be until she's 40."
I'm in my 40s, and I'm Babba or Bubba to quite a few people, including my mum and step-dad. But my name is Barbara, and it comes from that rather than from Baby - which somehow in my mind makes it more sensible.

I used to know somebody who called her husband Husby when speaking to him, but not when speaking about him. It suited them actually.

Hubby doesn't bother me - I might even use it if I had one, although in the past I've been more inclined to say Man-Husband - but DH just irritates me. I think it's because it's exclusive; most people, online or off, will know who you mean when you say Hubby, even if they don't like the term, but DH isn't immediately obvious.

CaoNiMao · 18/11/2015 06:23

Surely it should be 'hussy'? Where's the 'b' disappeared to? 'Husby' at the very least.

All awful, though.

MummyPig24 · 18/11/2015 06:45

I hate the word Hubby. One perfectly lovely woman I know calls her husband "Hubs" and I find it really cringey.

soupmaker · 18/11/2015 07:30

Each to their own, but every time I see or hear "hubby" or "hon" my teeth grind. I've had to hide posts from my newly married pal on FB due to the liberal use of hubby. I'm in the west coast of Scotland where "hun" refers to a particular strain of football fan.

SarahSavesTheDay · 18/11/2015 07:46

I adhere rigourously to 'husband'. That's it.

BertrandRussell · 18/11/2015 07:52

My Irish FIl used to call ds "big man", but it was somehow utterly charming in a Cork accent........

MythicalKings · 18/11/2015 07:54

Hubby, hubs and hubster are all awful.

My hand curls into a fist when I hear them.

pictish · 18/11/2015 07:59

As an asides, I hate it when people exaggerate how intolerant they are about something just to be part of a collective-thought gang.
I'm reading a lot of that sort of shit here. Hubby is only an atrocity on mumsnet - in the real world it's an innocuous, commonly used term that no one bats an eyelid at, including the people making a fuss about it here.

AlisonWunderland · 18/11/2015 08:04

It took me a long time to accept the use of DH, DS and DD on mumsnet. It still feels twee to me

MythicalKings · 18/11/2015 08:07

Hubby is only an atrocity on mumsnet - in the real world it's an innocuous, commonly used term that no one bats an eyelid at, including the people making a fuss about it here.

Fortunately it isn't commonly used by my social circle. I rarely hear it in real life.

SleepyForest · 18/11/2015 08:14

I have been here so long that I don't even register dh as twee (it is dreadful though). I even occasionally think it in real life. I call my husband , husband - but it still feels odd even after 20 years. I quite like the French "mari" but that would be super poncy.

WeirdCatLadyIsFeelingFestive · 18/11/2015 08:39

I use hubby sometimes, so shoot me.

While we're at it I also say girly shopping trip, call my friends ladies, and say trump instead of fart. I also still call my Dd babe or baby even though she's 14.

I like twee, it's cosy and comfy. I'm a housewife and I like to bake and do crafts...and there is nothing wrong with that. Everyone is different and if we were all the same life would be boring.

But don't let that stop anyone jumping on this bandwagon and piling in to condemn people for the word 'hubby'

BalaRua · 18/11/2015 08:41

I use it in a tongue in cheek way to annoy dh.

reni2 · 18/11/2015 08:54

Pictish- I think rl is very different for different people. I have never heard hubby in rl at all. I have read it, but on mn, not in rl. So yes, people have an opinion on it on mn, because for some (like me) this is the only place they ever come across it.

OTheHugeManatee · 18/11/2015 08:56

I've been hubbed and hubbied and even hubsed by others but I didn't inhale have never hubbed myself.

FourForYouGlenCoco · 18/11/2015 09:02

I occasionally call DH hubba-hubba-hubsy to his face because it really pisses him off, tee hee but not in a serious way because he's my husband, not a toddler. On here/online it's DH and in RL it's his name (or 'that bloody wanker' sometimes if I'm talking to my friends!)

JoffreyBaratheon · 18/11/2015 09:10

No.

Someone I know IRL who has a blog calls her husband "the hubcap" or "husbeast" and it makes me cringe every time I read it. But they were both unmarried well into their 40s so for them I guess marriage is exciting and some kind of status thing. I was married at 23, over 30 years ago so I'd be a dick if I was still proud of it or excited by it. Although TBH even if blogging had existed in the 1980s, he would never have been hubby, hubcap or any other shit.

I am very uncharitable, but if I ever see it I assume the person was a bit fugly/desperate and therefore proud they finally netted a 'hubby'. Shudder.

LilaTheTiger · 18/11/2015 09:56

I used to blog about my 'lovely hubby' but I was being sarcastic because he was a grade A cunt.

It made me feel better while I was working up to leaving the bastard

vladthedisorganised · 18/11/2015 10:09

Nope. Doesn't really suit our personalities, any more than 'lil princess' suits DD. It is a colloquialism, and a fairly common one, but not our scene really.

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MitzyLeFrouf · 18/11/2015 10:19

'in the real world it's an innocuous, commonly used term that no one bats an eyelid at, including the people making a fuss about it here.'

Hand on heart I have never heard it said in real life. Maybe there's a hubby enclave somewhere.

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MitzyLeFrouf · 18/11/2015 10:21

'I'm a housewife and I like to bake and do crafts...and there is nothing wrong with that.'

You're making a bit of a leap there WeirdCat. People are slagging a word, not your lifestyle!

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