Do real men use pet names?
It was a turning point when I realized that a girlfriend and I liked calling each-other "babe." I never thought I would be that.
But there I was, using - oh, no! - pet names and goofy terms of endearment.
And she was using them back.
This was something to be avoided, in my mind. Pet names are corny, even a bit girly. But we guys use them (admit it) and we hear them in return. And they're cute, it's true.
But don't get caught in front of your buddies using them.
There's a whole world of cute little terms of endearment out there, literally. French: mon petit chou (my little cabbage); German: Ich fresse dich (something like our "I could eat you up."); American: honey bunches.
Some don't even make sense. And there are limits, like when pet names get kinda far out. I've heard of some folks leaving their current girl/guy because of an inappropriate pet name used too soon. I once heard of someone being called "zipper queen" in an attempt to be cute. Really.
Today's blog is simple. What pet names have you used? What have you been called? What's the weirdest one you've heard? What's your favorite-ever? What drives you crazy?
What do you call your sweet thang? Lover? Baby? Sugah? Muffinbutt?
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I used to get really snappish if boys would use pet names with me.
My resistance started to erode when a guy friend called me "honey." He was genuinely puzzled and his feelings were hurt when I told him I didn't like it. After all, he called his sister honey and all of his girl friends and he didn't get my problem. So that made me kind of not get my problem, too.
The worst pet name ever was "sugarbritches," which a guy called me just to make me mad. It worked.
Posted on September 21, 2007 10:14 AM
Boyfriend calls me sugar lips, which i find vaguely perjorative. I find myself calling him baby, which makes me sick because his mother calls him that. We're still working on it.
I always liked the pet name Rory Gilmore (from the CW's now defunct "Gilmore Girls") got from her boyfriend: Ace.
Posted on September 21, 2007 4:14 PM
I don't call my boyfriend by any pet names. I couldn't take myself seriously if I did, and if he tried to call me by pet names, I think I'd burst out laughing. We've been together for six years now and it just seems like we have too much dignity for "baby," "sweetie" or "sugar." I call him by his name.
I reserve the pet names for my cats, with whom I sound completely ridiculous. But it's okay, because they're cats. (I do the same to my friends' dogs.)
Posted on September 21, 2007 5:33 PM
Well its so funny. I just found out that my husband has signed up for an online dating service to meet women! Isn't that special?
He wants another woman because he is into perverted sex and porno and I don't want him to defile me, so I guess he thinks I don't really love him, since I won't let him cum on my face.
He apparently signed up with some woman who is called wandasugarbritches. Isn't that sweet.
Well your problems could always be worse eh?
Posted on October 2, 2007 8:49 PM
My bf calls me "Kitten" which I think is super cute and makes him even more endearing. It's nothing sexual or deragatory (sp?). Plain and Simple. And I just call him either "Babe" or "Baby".
Posted on October 5, 2007 9:57 PM