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.

we call each other babe, I do use DH's name - in company thou I use his full name (he's not v happy about that! lol) but it's normally 'do us a brew babe, or love., or 'whats for tea babe' we're really quite sad.

Ooh no, that would be wierd too.
We are mummy and Daddy to ds just not to each other.
However, just for the record, this does not necessariliy mean we have sex

Of course you say mummy and daddy when talking to the children but NOT when talking to each other. That's just weird (and deffo grounds for divorce).

It's also weird for us as my whole family and everyone I knew until I left school calls me by a shortened version of my name, then DH knows me by another different shortened version of my name and now where we live I couldn't decide what I wanted to be called so started with the long version of my name which has stuck and it gets v confusing when different people are talking about me (it's a bit like the difference between being Liz, Betty and Elizabeth). Makes it really annoying when I have to write out Xmas cards too as I have to remember who I am writing too and how they know me! I'm cruising for an identity crisis!

In a similar vein, I have never lived with my dad and didn't see him for many years so I have a weird thing about calling him 'dad', I use to call him by his first name, but I think that upsets him, so now when I see him I just have to make sure I am looking at him when I am talking so I don't to call out 'dad'! nd when I talk about him to my little half brothers I say "your dad" even though he's my dad - weird huh?

This thread has really struck a cord with me - agree totally will littlelapin - both DH & I only use each other's real names when we are in trouble.

I have 2 names I use for DH - he has millions for me the most bizzare being Philomena Jankovich - closely followed by Jaaskelainen. I have absoltely no idea where he gets these names from but answer anyway!!
He does exactly the same for DD & I find myself using them to her too - goodness only knows hat she will think when she is a little older?!?

We also really struggle when in other company !!!

I have realised I do this, ususally call him darling or hon! My mother has never called any of us by name, we are all darling - which usually results in "which one" as a response if we are all together!

Can be weird to call dp by his name.Normally just use pet name.Thankfully not to embarasing as he is my cookie Monster

My DS now gets my attention by shouting "Babes!", thanks to DH, who has always called me that. Mind you, I'd rather that than go down my parent's route. My dad calls my mum "mum". My brother and I want to curl up and die whenever he does it...

Excellent, I thought it was just me! Dh can use my name if necessary, I find it physically nigh on impossible. In Ireland I can get away with referring to him as Himself if necessary.

Littlelapin,
please, please please explain more about the scatalogical thing.....

I feel weird saying my husband but using his name feels weird too as I rarely do at home.

Ok.
Not that i'm interested cos my name for dp is in any way poo related, oh no, nope, nope, not me , not I.
No, no, no, no, no, absolutely not.

So his pet name is "shit"?

Lol - only on certain occasions!

"shittykins"?

"craphead"?

"fa ecal matter man"?

"poopy" and "pissy"?

wtf?

lol

have only ever called dh by his name

I can't think of anything milder than "poopy" that would still be considered scatological.

"Skiddy"?