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Innocent Message!

159 replies

Tiann92 · 09/05/2021 14:06

Hello

Ok I might be crazy but is this message innocent?

It's just the term babe is used .

Innocent Message!
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Aquamarine1029 · 09/05/2021 14:08

A lot more information is needed, but I wouldn't think one would call merely a friend "babe."

DeathToCovid · 09/05/2021 14:10

Depends on the context, I call some of my male friends babe, mostly cause it annoys them.

Are you suspicious of the person they’re texting?

DinosaurDiana · 09/05/2021 14:14

Who sent it to who ? And were they actually at church at 8.16am or are my thoughts of a spire in the morning totally the wrong thing ?

Tiann92 · 09/05/2021 14:19

Sorry more info,

The message was on my husbands phone. I have seen other messages from girls in the past . So I slightly have trust issues.

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WatieKatie · 09/05/2021 14:19

One of my male friends calls me babe. Purely platonic, just they way he speaks.

Aquamarine1029 · 09/05/2021 14:20

Sound like your husband is a cheat. Why are you bothering with him? There's no point when you can't trust him.

Reinventinganna · 09/05/2021 14:21

What was in reply to?
Who is she?

Reinventinganna · 09/05/2021 14:22

Also what were the other messages in the past and what was the outcome?

Tiann92 · 09/05/2021 14:24

One of the previous messages. Which he convinced me that it was a typo from a friend.

Innocent Message!
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MadMadMadamMim · 09/05/2021 14:24

Is it from the vicar?

Tiann92 · 09/05/2021 14:26

@Reinventinganna

What was in reply to? Who is she?
I can't see as he has his phone locked.
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CliftonGreenYork · 09/05/2021 14:27

@Aquamarine1029

Sound like your husband is a cheat. Why are you bothering with him? There's no point when you can't trust him.
Way to support someone and take things to the worse possible situation.
smudgemylife · 09/05/2021 14:35

Might be something if its out of character for your husband.
On the other hand I call everyone babe, my love, sugar etc. And always have. Where I'm from it's just a northern thing and totally normal for friends and strangers (shop keepers, bus drivers etc.)

category12 · 09/05/2021 14:38

The message was on my husbands phone. I have seen other messages from girls in the past . So I slightly have trust issues.

Urgh, I hate when people take this on themselves as if it's their problem. You don't have trust issues - you have an untrustworthy partner issue.

Bluedeblue · 09/05/2021 14:42

Hmm. Does he call you Babe? Or any other platonic friends?

There are only 2 men in my life that call me Babe : My DH and my Dad.

Mind you, when I lived in London everyone used the word Babe.

wildeverose · 09/05/2021 14:47

My male friends call me babe, sweetheart, darling etc - absolutely nothing but platonic and they're just terms of endearment. I wouldn't jump to cheating over the word babe, but I feel like there's a lot more to this.

IEat · 09/05/2021 15:02

It would piss me off

Imjustsootired · 09/05/2021 15:37

Nah. Something not right there.

Tiann92 · 09/05/2021 16:11

So it looks like the views are mixed then, I wouldn't be thinking so much about it if wasn't for other messages I have saw too.

My husband has only just come here in January so I'm not aware he has any women friends from here and it's just the way the message sounds the way the babe is first ?'!

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ThatIsMyPotato · 09/05/2021 16:13

It's like it's in reply to someone trying to ring or swearing or saying something rude and them not wanting to being pestered saying babe.. I'm in church. Some people say babe to everyone though hun.

Grandbisou · 09/05/2021 16:36

Isn’t bae for girlfriends etc ?

Homer101 · 09/05/2021 16:41

I'm a man and I call my oldest friend who I've known since we were 5 years old babe. I somtimes call the woman im seeing babe. But not often. I never use to call my wife babe. But the girl I went out with for two years from the age of 18 I always called her babe and she always called me babe.
A guy at work calls all the women that work with us babe. No matter there age and we have them from 19 years old right upto their late 60s its just how he speaks .
In your case its impossible to tell without knowing the woman who's texting . It could be somtbing or it could mean nothing . Sorry .

Isitreallyme77 · 09/05/2021 17:04

One of my male friends tells me he loves me lots when he ends calls and messages and i say the same to him. If someone read them or heard the calls who didn't know us they may think there was something going on. There is absolutely nothing going on and I do love him dearly, he is more like a brother to me than a friend.

Mermaidwaves · 09/05/2021 17:32

If he calls all women he knows babe I wouldn't think too much of it, some people use endearmemts a lot with friends. However, I can see why you're suss, is your gut telling you other things?

youvegottenminuteslynn · 09/05/2021 17:44

Bae = girlfriend / boyfriend.

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