How do others react to their partners accidentally calling them by their ex-wife's name? My partner of two years (divorced five years now and had a serious girlfriend for a year prior to meeting to me) has done this four times now in the space of a year. Never did it at the beginning. He feels awful, tells me he has no feelings for her and that it means nothing and doesn't know why he does it. I was married 15 years ro someone else and never make the same mistake. I HATE it, especially the time it happened at dinner in front of cousins and friends of his.