To not like being called darling....

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By a 23 year old girl? I am 37....

Depends on the circumstance or relationship really.

I couldn't give two shits about it though regardless of age, gender, circumstance.

Also 23 year old is a woman.

My son was 2 when I was 23. I'd been through far more at that age than the average 37 year old.

You are being precious.

Colleague of mine

You'd hate where I'm from in the north ,everyone calls everyone else love , darling , sweetheart, flower , lovely ,hunny etc no matter what age you are and nobody cares because we grew up that way 😁

What’s her age got to do with anything? She’s a woman at 23, not a girl. Don’t be daft.

I think it is worse to call a woman 'a girl' than it is to use the term 'darling'.

I am not mad on the general terms people use like 'love' 'darling' or 'duck' but I just let it go unless it is an obviously sexist putdown.

It's up to you what you like/don't like being called.

As long as you've politely told her you don't like it, you can't be unreasonable.

depends who's saying it. as long as it's not smarmy I don't mind.

In Glasgow you get called 'doll' a lot. Makes me feel like a gangster's moll.

I think OP feels it should be the other way round Darling

Is it regional?

I am 48 and regularly called love and duck by colleagues half my age but always makes me chuckle quietly and enjoy that I do have interaction with much younger people.

I would never have called a 37 year old darling at 23 . Give or take a few years, I'm nearly old enough to be her mum. Just find it odd.

I find that kind of thing patronising from a much younger person, usually tolerable from an older or similarly aged person. My closest friend went through a phase of greeting me with a mock-Cockney ‘allo darlin!’ a few years back, which ended when I asked her to stop because I really didn’t like it.

call her pet every time she calls your darling and she'll get the message.

Was discussing this the other day. I wouldn't mind an elderly person calling me darling etc but it really annoys me when someone in their early to mid twenties calls me darling when I am in my 30s!

On the other hand, she's 23 old woman - and you're calling her a girl. Six of one...

You lost when you called a 23 year old woman a 'girl'.

I had a colleague 11 years younger than me use terms of enderment to me she use to call me love, hunny, dolly, darling etc... she did it with most people. I didn't mind I found it quite sweet. She was 21years old and I was 32yrs old. Age is just a number, shes a grown woman at the end of the day.

A manager I had at a care home where I worked once pulled her up over it, and insisted she doesn't use terms of endearment to the residents and only call the residents by there proper name e.g. Mary, sylvia, Stanley. She still called them Love, honey, darling. Most residents liked it too, only 1 or 2 objected and insisted on there forename.

This definitely!

Also, years ago I used to have an elderly customer from the London area who always called me Treacle and I used to love it.🥰

I have been called Love and Sweetheart by much younger women in shops lately. It makes me laugh inside. I think I'm starting to look really old.

I couldn't get stressed about it. Just call her Darling back and laugh then carry on about your day.

It’s friendly.

I agree! I was continually called 'love' by a young male hairstylist at a very cool salon. It made me feel old and oddly unwelcome and I never went back! But I like being called 'love' or 'darling' by contemporaries or older people, so I guess I'm just contrary.

Not something that would bother me. I work on building sites & spend all day being called love, hon, sweets, darlin, girls, babes etc. They are just trying to be friendly. I don't take offense

It would bother me too op.

I had a young lady who used to always call me doll. "Thanks doll" "see you later doll" argh!!!!!!