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Question for the Marrieds

Does your wife call you by your first name? ‘Cause according to this video I guess you all change your names to “babe”, “honey”, “dipshit” or similar when you marry.

https://youtu.be/EwP9KC3jG6M
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  • theknowledge
    theknowledge Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,642 Founders Club
    My wife calls me by my name. Sometimes she will inverse two letters in my name call me that. I am 50/50. I have about 20 weird names that I called her as jokes before we were married that have been shortened down over the years for use around our kids. We use first names exclusively in public. No one needs to know the stupid endearments we call each other at home. Babe is never used. We both find it cringe worthy.
  • Fishpo31
    Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,639
    Only in public, or when I'm in trouble. I am to blame, my parents never called each other by their given names, or me by mine. My mom would if I was in trouble, but I literally cannot remember my father ever calling me by name. He called me Charlie, as in Charlie Brown, until the day he died. We use all of the sappy ones, and a few shortened to initials only we know the meaning of. I have become my parents...
  • Doog_de_Jour
    Doog_de_Jour Member Posts: 8,041 Standard Supporter
    edited January 2021
    Interesting. My parents call each other by their first names generally, but I suspect they had pet names they use when others weren’t around. Same with both sets of grandparents.
  • Doog_de_Jour
    Doog_de_Jour Member Posts: 8,041 Standard Supporter

    My wife calls me by my name. Sometimes she will inverse two letters in my name call me that. I am 50/50. I have about 20 weird names that I called her as jokes before we were married that have been shortened down over the years for use around our kids. We use first names exclusively in public. No one needs to know the stupid endearments we call each other at home. Babe is never used. We both find it cringe worthy.

    Yes! One guy I date called me “babe” and it annoyed the fuck out of me. Especially because I knew that’s what he called his ex.
  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,792 Swaye's Wigwam
    I have been married enough times I don't call her by her name only because I get confused and use the wrong name. Things I have learned:

    do not call her by an ex-wife's name if you value your life
    do not forget her birthday (that cost me dearly)
    or forget to have kids get something for Mother's Day (did that too)
    or anniversary (so got married on April 15th - a day that I will never forget)

    So yes I use other names to call my wife, but definitely not 'babe'
  • whlinder
    whlinder Member Posts: 5,273
    Yes as well as all the mushy names.

    In fact it is a meme/joke around our friends on how my wife says my name when she is trying to get my attention
  • Doog_de_Jour
    Doog_de_Jour Member Posts: 8,041 Standard Supporter
    edited January 2021
    LebamDawg said:

    I have been married enough times I don't call her by her name only because I get confused and use the wrong name. Things I have learned:

    do not call her by an ex-wife's name if you value your life
    do not forget her birthday (that cost me dearly)
    or forget to have kids get something for Mother's Day (did that too)
    or anniversary (so got married on April 15th - a day that I will never forget)

    So yes I use other names to call my wife, but definitely not 'babe'

    Heh. That’s a good list.

    I always suspected many people use pet names as they are terrified with accidentally calling their current SO by their ex’s name (or whoever they’re fantasizing about).
  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
    Babe, hun, honey, sugartits...I don’t see a problem.
  • Fishpo31
    Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,639
    LebamDawg said:

    I have been married enough times I don't call her by her name only because I get confused and use the wrong name. Things I have learned:

    do not call her by an ex-wife's name if you value your life
    do not forget her birthday (that cost me dearly)
    or forget to have kids get something for Mother's Day (did that too)
    or anniversary (so got married on April 15th - a day that I will never forget)

    So yes I use other names to call my wife, but definitely not 'babe'

    My last three significant relationships (wife #1, referred to as the "practice wife", long-term girlfriend, and Final Wife), all have very similar names, all beginning with E...all with the middle name Marie. With the girlfriend, she may have became wife #2, had I not called her by Wife #1's name once when I was exhausted from work...I swore she mis-heard it, but the names are so similar, I was toast. Occasionally, someone will call Final Wife by practice wife's name by mistake, we just look at each other and laugh...CSB
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,114 Standard Supporter

    My wife calls me by my name. Sometimes she will inverse two letters in my name call me that. I am 50/50. I have about 20 weird names that I called her as jokes before we were married that have been shortened down over the years for use around our kids. We use first names exclusively in public. No one needs to know the stupid endearments we call each other at home. Babe is never used. We both find it cringe worthy.

    Yes! One guy I date called me “babe” and it annoyed the fuck out of me. Especially because I knew that’s what he called his ex.
    Still in the present tense?!?

    He must have other, shall we say, positive attributes.....



  • Doog_de_Jour
    Doog_de_Jour Member Posts: 8,041 Standard Supporter

    My wife calls me by my name. Sometimes she will inverse two letters in my name call me that. I am 50/50. I have about 20 weird names that I called her as jokes before we were married that have been shortened down over the years for use around our kids. We use first names exclusively in public. No one needs to know the stupid endearments we call each other at home. Babe is never used. We both find it cringe worthy.

    Yes! One guy I date called me “babe” and it annoyed the fuck out of me. Especially because I knew that’s what he called his ex.
    Still in the present tense?!?

    He must have other, shall we say, positive attributes.....



    Heh. Damn my lack of proofreading! Yes, past tense.

  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,301 Standard Supporter
    Real name only, no nicknames. Except when I called her "Woman" when my dinner is late.
  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,683 Swaye's Wigwam
    I've lived with my Mrs Chuck for about six years now so close enough.

    It's pretty dorky but she usually says babe. She says my real name when she's really thinking hard, angry, or about to confront me about something.

    One thing she doesn't call me is Chuck. She hates it for whatever reason.
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839

    Real name only, no nicknames. Except when I called her "Woman" when my dinner is late.

    Ha! I had an ex-boyfriend that would call me “woman” when we’d bicker (“listen hear, woman!”) which I actually found rather endearing.

    But if any of you ass clowns dare address me that way I’ll rip your nuts off and use them as hacky sacks.
    My wife husband calls me baby, woman.

    It's lame but it's what we? do.
  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,683 Swaye's Wigwam

    Real name only, no nicknames. Except when I called her "Woman" when my dinner is late.

    Ha! I had an ex-boyfriend that would call me “woman” when we’d bicker (“listen hear, woman!”) which I actually found rather endearing.

    But if any of you ass clowns dare address me that way I’ll rip your nuts off and use them as hacky sacks.
    Yeah good luck playing hacky sack with my dry, shriveled, old man nuts wom..... ah nevermind. They're still mine.
  • Doog_de_Jour
    Doog_de_Jour Member Posts: 8,041 Standard Supporter
    dnc said:

    Real name only, no nicknames. Except when I called her "Woman" when my dinner is late.

    Ha! I had an ex-boyfriend that would call me “woman” when we’d bicker (“listen hear, woman!”) which I actually found rather endearing.

    But if any of you ass clowns dare address me that way I’ll rip your nuts off and use them as hacky sacks.
    My wife husband calls me baby, woman.

    It's lame but it's what we? do.
    Warned.


  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,739 Founders Club

    LebamDawg said:

    I have been married enough times I don't call her by her name only because I get confused and use the wrong name. Things I have learned:

    do not call her by an ex-wife's name if you value your life
    do not forget her birthday (that cost me dearly)
    or forget to have kids get something for Mother's Day (did that too)
    or anniversary (so got married on April 15th - a day that I will never forget)

    So yes I use other names to call my wife, but definitely not 'babe'

    Heh. That’s a good list.

    I always suspected many people use pet names as they are terrified with accidentally calling their current SO by their ex’s name (or whoever they’re fantasizing about).
    Let me ask you this, have you ever called anyone Swaye?
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072

    My wife calls me by my name. Sometimes she will inverse two letters in my name call me that. I am 50/50. I have about 20 weird names that I called her as jokes before we were married that have been shortened down over the years for use around our kids. We use first names exclusively in public. No one needs to know the stupid endearments we call each other at home. Babe is never used. We both find it cringe worthy.

    Yes! One guy I date called me “babe” and it annoyed the fuck out of me. Especially because I knew that’s what he called his ex.
    So, in your private moments, what do you call his ex?