'mummmm !' what do you call your dp/dh [light hearted]

[mrsfuzzy]

it's like listening to a six year old when my neighbour is in the garden, he's in his 30's but goes in the garden is out there for a couple of minutes then he calls her several times, loudly, i don't know her real name, so i guess she is mum -. she calls him by his name but responds in a tired mums voice sort that you would use when a dc whinges and pesters.
sorry, if i sound a bit bitchy but it makes me smile, so what do you call your dp /dh/ dw ?

[Ffion3107]

I call mine his name. But "Dad" with DD.."tell Dad to hurry up on the toilet' for example. Great example, I know.

[Zaphodsotherhead]

My ex used to call me 'mummy'. All. The.Bloody.Time. Even when the kids weren't around. i asked him to stop, told him I wasn't his mother, but he kept on doing it. Hence (only one of the reasons) the 'ex'.

Current partner I just use his name. He doesn't call me anything. If he did, it probably wouldn't be complimentary (he doesn't do compliments. Or pleasantries, really).

[RoboticSealpup]

We call each other 'honey'. In public we use each other's names, but we both think it sounds like we're annoyed with each other when we do that. Honey sounds silly, though.

[Heyheyheygoodbye]

No kids but DH and I refer to each other as mummy and daddy when we talk to/as/through the dog

[TaliZorahVasNormandy]

I use daddy when talking to DD. When I'm talking to ex directly, I use his first name, even with DD around.

Everyone uses when my first name when talking to me, but mummy when talking to DD and referring to me. She's known me as mummy for 9 years, She'd be a bit confused if someone used my name when talking to her.

[MLGs]

When I was with exdh I would call him by his name or any random term of affection.

[Oysterbabe]

Diddy that is bonkers.
In our house DH might say
DH: Oysterbabe would you like a cup of tea?
Me: yes please
DH: I'll be back in a minute DD, I'm just going to make mummy a cup of tea.

If he said "Mummy would you like a cup of tea?" That would creep me the fuck out, I'm not his mum.

Surely your children will soon learn that you have names that other people call you by but that you are their mummy so they call you that?!

But anyway turning to the OP, am I the only one that doesn't understand it at all?

[Oysterbabe]

I mean is the man in the garden calling his mum or his DW?

[joanne90]

Mine calls me boobies, has since the day we met (I do have 36dds)

[ThinkPinkStink]

We call each other by our first names (full length versions, think 'Daniel', rather than 'Dan', or 'Elizabeth' rather than 'Lizzy'). We also call each other 'Darling'. That's basically it.

[isthistoonosy]

He uses my full first name which nobody else has ever called me. He has a short name but I use the long version. Tbh we rarely need to call each other anything anyway, except to the kids and then we are mummy/mamma daddy/pappa.

[StarlingMurmuration]

I call DP by his name, or sometimes "Darling". I call him "Daddy" when I'm talking about him to little DS - so, "Give this to Daddy" or "Daddy, can we have some milkie please?" or whatever.

[PaperdollCartoon]

Babe mostly, honey... Also a slightly silly version of his real name.

Diddly are you my DPs grandma? Also Mrs Williams, also very put out if strangers call her by her first name. But not family members or friends. I've also heard loads of people call my mum her first name, I still call her mum! In fact 99% of mum's are referred to by their first names in front of their kids, kids still call them mum! Children can still respect people they know the name of...

BeyondLovesSweetDee I bet I know why you call him Bob

[furryminkymoo]

My DD loved finding out that I wasn't called Mummy to everyone and take great delight in telling people my name,

[ApocalypseSlough]

Diddy that is utterly bonkers!!

[MariposaUno]

I call mine Panda. started with reference to what kind of animal you'd beconvo. He's a panda.

I'm called gorgeous and other terms of endearment in Spanish and pretty much anything other than my name.

[Mynestisfullofempty]

Diddy that is utterly bonkers!!

I couldn't agree more.
Diddy, why wouldn't your DD still refer to you as 'mummy' whether or not other people, such as your DH, use your first name? Everyone else seems to manage that without such strange 'rules'. I think it's crazy to ignore people - who aren't your children - if they don't call you 'mummy'. You're not their mother!

[Mynestisfullofempty]

"Mine calls me boobies, has since the day we met (I do have 36dds)"

*Joanne, just for a second I thought you had 36 daughters!

[KaosReigns]

If someone refers to me by my first name in DD presence I ignore them.

I love it, teach your children to respect you by massively disrespecting others in their presense. Do these other people have to call you Mummy to get your attention too?

Everything in our house is called baby. Me, DP, both cats, the dog and the actual baby. Makes for some wonderfully confusing conversations. We're trying to stop I swear.

[dontpokethebear]

I call my husband 'daddy pig' said it a couple times as a joke and unfortunately it's stuck
I also call him the Spanish version of his name.

[KellyElly]

He spanish so calls me 'chochito' or 'señorita' or sometimes 'love' (puts on a really bad cockney type accent when he calls me that ) and I either call him by his name or 'monkey brain'. By text/message 'sweetheart' or 'darling'.

[NerrSnerr]

Diddy I have visions of your children at school talking to friends 'my mum's name is Helen, mine is called Jenny. My mum is called mummy'.

Surely children are aware their parents have names but still call then mum?

[KaosReigns]

Never by our actual names though. One of us using the correct name in this house would lead to massive freak outs. Accidentally called DP by his first name a few months back and had to apologise profusely and reassure him I wasn't mad and he hadn't done anything wrong. Even in a fight we don't use actual names he genuinely thought I was breaking up with him.

This post has made me seriously question how odd our wee family is... poor baby(ies).

[ThoraGruntwhistle]

Diddy - it would be disrespectful for your daughter to call you by your first name, so she isn't allowed to know what it is...but it's perfectly fine to ignore people talking to you?

[Notso]

I cannot stop picturing a group of women all calling each other Mummy or Daisy/Oliver/Toby'sMummy. It is so weird, I'm imagining baby voices like on the Haribo advert.

DH calls me my name, my initial or another version of my name. Sometimes Babes in an Essex voice.
I call him his preferred name shortening or a nickname, and Diddy prepare to be mind blown, our kids call us Mum and Dad or Mama and Daddy for the youngest. I am not my name or Babes to my kids although DS3 does call me My Laydee sometimes!
As an aside I always tell my children to shout my name if they get lost rather than Mum/Mummy.