To ask if you hate being called hun?

[Roarlikeme]

Or lovely or something else?

YANBU - I don’t mind/I call people this myself

YABU - I hate it

I hate being called it excessively. Some people use 'hun' every other word.

It's the spelling that puts my teeth on edge, so hate seeing it written, but don't mind what people call me as long as they are genuine.

Don't you mean YANBU I hate it?
I can't stand it. And "babes".

Hate it. Babe is yet worse. I had a colleague who called me babe and I had to ignore him every time till he used my name.

I don’t love it. But I don’t hate it either.

Hang on, you already have a post in AIBU about this.

”Hun” is an ethnic slur which no one has ever liked being called.

or did you mean “hon”?

This. I can't get worked up about being called anything but the deliberately infantile spelling is awful.

No one ever calls me this.

It's appalling. Anyone who called me 'Hun' would be handed their teeth and their marching orders.

Absolutely hate it - comes across as patronising and over familiar, and just plain lazy that people can't use my name. I would be very unlikely to be close friends with anyone who uses it 😬

I don't mind it at all, when I'm dressed as a 5th century horseback warrior archer.

The rest of the time I find it deeply annoying.

My manager uses it & I feel like it conveys a sort of false intimacy. Also it seems quite passive aggressive when used along with a work command. All in all not a fan.

A friend I have known since school days suddenly started calling me hun when we were in our forties, I found it really irritating , in text messages she even used to call me hunny bunny!

Yes! I have so far managed to convert a friend from calling me "hun" to "hon". Next step don't call me that at all. It's a work in progress 😉

This is interesting because I have heard my (female) boss call me “flower” today. I thought she said it 2-3 weeks ago but thought I must have misheard but she definitely said it today and I don’t like it at all!

If she continues I think I will have to say something as I’m sure she doesn’t refer to my male colleagues like this.

Yes, I despise it.

I hate it no matter how it’s spelled but I have one friend who calls me ‘hon’ in texts and that seems to set my teeth on edge even more than ‘hun’.

I do call people ‘love’ occasionally though so maybe I’m just as bad.

I hate being called "lovely". I am not at primary school and you are not my teacher.

I can’t stand it.

It’s appalling. That and babes. 🤬

Hate hun, hon, babes, love

Don't mind darling or sweetheart if said sincerely

It’s hated on MN but it really doesn’t bother me at all.

I like traditional regional words like love or pet. They generally come across as warm. Not keen on things that suddenly become ubiquitous like ‘hun’ (whereas was quite happy to be called hon when I lived in the south of the US) and ’my lovely’. They just sound overly familiar and contrived.

I don't really like anything like that, Hun, lovely, chick...it does sometimes depend on who it's coming from though. My grandma calling me sweetie is okay but not so much from others 😂