Cant call DP by his name!!

[JeremyVile]

Does anyone find it hard to call their DH/DP by their name?
I've been with DP for 6 years but from very early on we have referred to each other by pet names (urgh, hate that expression)not to other people you understand, cos that would just be !
We dont have a problem with it, its just a strange quirk that we share! but it can be embarassing if i slip and call him it in public (its not really a socially acceptable thing to call someone).
What i do find odd is that i almost physically cant call him by his actual name, it feels very wierd when we're in company and i have to say it, its bizarre.

I'll use dh's name when i'm calling him. but he very very rarely uses mine when talking to me. even more annoyingly he says my name wrong when he's talking about me to his mom. (my actual name is pronounced in the french way IYSWIM) that drives me NUTS!!!

I've called dh by his name prob twice in the 10 years we've been together.

And I hate him, or anyone, calling me by my name. Feels like I'm being told off.

If he called me Mummy in any context except directly to one of the kids, Id divorce him!

exactly lapin!

am feeling midlyly traumatised byt his thread
i hayte pet names

i clal my dh

MR cod.
at all times

Cod, thank God you are here ... talk some sense into them will you?

I rarely call dh by his name - usually 'hon' or 'darling' (I know lots of people hate it, but hey). And if he calls me by my first name, I feel slightly aggrieved.

However, I did once make a whole tube platform full of people turn round by yelling his first name - even the people at the far end heard me (he was striding ahead, no way I could keep up through the crowd). He has a very popular name so there were probably a dozen of them thinking 'Who is that strange woman and why does she want me?'.

well my dh has s weird firs name( and last name for that matter) os his firts name alwasy attracts peopel turning their heads.

oyu lot need o grow up wiht oyr huns

Mind you, I call all my friends 'sweetie' or other terms of endearment too. And regular contacts at work. V. v. bad. But amuses my colleagues when talking to VIPs.

a club I can join too. He calls me by my first name but rarely but I am virtually never. I call him darling or sweetheart which was OK before we had children because it was just him, but now I call my own children those names as well, plus all my nephews, plus my friend's children, plus my children's friends etc. I definitely have a psychological stumbling block about it.

Thought I was the only one! It feels odd to call DH by his name although I have no problems referring to him by name when talking to other people. I used to yell "oi fishface" if I was calling him in the house but can't now with DS around so usually ask him to "call Daddy".

Can't remember the last time DH referred to me by name either. We met at work and everyone used to call me by a shortened version of my real name which I liked and DH used to as well. He hasn't used that for YEARS!

Don't call each other Mummy and Daddy unless communicating through DS (although the no sex bit would apply!)

I cringe when I hear a couple call each other mummy and daddy or similar. It's so creepy and always sounds incestuous.

well weirdly i have a full name that was always abbreviated as a kid

say susannah no susie

then got married and diminutive workeht noy
say..." susie salami"

so reverted to full name - sisannah salami

but dh still alls me susie( or not)

which everyone thigks it hjilariously cutsey

When dh and I were in early days he made it clear that he hated pet names and thank goodness. We do sometimes call each other Darling, but mostly our names. I too would consider myself divorced if he called me Mummy.

hey?

I used ot be susie pigtrotter

then marired and susie salami sounded stupid
so reverted to being susannah salami

but dh still calls me susie

Think I'll just use "DH" - he thinks I am loopy anyway with all my imaginary friends.

It makes my flesh creep and my teeth itch when i hear couples calling each other Mummy/Daddy.
Still not revealing.... but I am very interested to hear more of lapins "scatalogical" reference......

oh i say to th ekdis" go and ask daddy" go and ask jeermy soudns very" modern Parents"

LOLROF at Susie Pigtrotter got married to Mr Salami ...

My nickname at uni was Susie - Susie Swearhead

Not read the rest of the posts yet but we are exactly the same! To the point when DH only says my name if he is cross with me! It usually darl or babe etc. Just sort of slipped into it. So yes, I too feel weird when I actually call him by his name.

But it's unusual for you to actually use someone's name when you talk to then in conversation anyway, you don't often say "so Janice, tell me about your day..." or "how are you doing Bob"

I don't call DH by his full name - use his shortened name, or his second christian name. Confused the hell out of people on holiday recently when they heard me call dh "fred" + he then corrected them when they called him "fred" and he had to explain it all, with me cowering in the corner of the bar looking