If your DP called you by his exes name a couple of times? Sign that he hasn't moved on or just a slip of the tongue?

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For about 6 months I've been dating someone and if it's already going south I'd rather leave now than continue having doubts and questioning mine/his behaviour.

He'll occasionally call me by his ex girlfriend's name and I really cannot stand this. It just screams that he still somewhere in his mind has her in his thoughts. Fine if he does but I don't want to be the rebound or the buffer whilst he sorts himself out.

It's not even a similar name like Nicola vs Nicole. If he can't call me by my actual name then what hope is there?

I think I've already made up my mind but I don't know if IABU because it's just a name. But it's my name. Everyone else in my life with whom I don't even share any sort of intimacy with can remember to call me by my right name yet my own partner can't

Sorry, rambling now and don't really know what my question is but would this be a deal breaker for you?

We regularly call DH by my DM's dog's name. They sound very similar. Then when our best man comes to stay I get his name and DH's muddled.

I've never had any feelings for BM or the dog...!

I wouldn't worry. If you say they had 10 good years together then maybe that's just his brain in relaxed mode (which actually is a compliment). You should just call him Brian or Kevin or whatever when he does it to you. He'll get there.

I had a former relationship of 10+ years and have occasionally called my h by exs name. Just in a fly away remark not in an intense conversation. It happens. For a long time exs name was just what I called someone whom I was in that kind of relationship with. Doesn't happen anymore. Names aren't similar but it took years.