What do you call your DH?

[Night Elf]

As I called for my DH this morning, I wondered about what other terms of endearment people use when they talk to each other. I use my DH's name sometimes, but most of the time I call him Milo which is a short version of My Love. It started off as silly fun when we were first married, but became second nature so much that it's just his name now. He'll even sign cards like that, but only to me of course. I don't use terms like honey or dear though. He doesn't have a pet name for me though, but that's cool. At least he doesn't refer to me as the 'ball and chain' or something like that. :tongue_smilie:

 

When you talk with your DH/Wife/Partner, do you use the name that everyone else calls them, or do you use your own pet name you created, or terms of endearment?

[k2bdeutmeyer]

9 times out of 10 I call DH "hon". It feels strange to call him by his first name.

 

I LOVE Milo!! Very cute!

[Meriwether]

As I called for my DH this morning, I wondered about what other terms of endearment people use when they talk to each other. I use my DH's name sometimes, but most of the time I call him Milo which is a short version of My Love. It started off as silly fun when we were first married, but became second nature so much that it's just his name now. He'll even sign cards like that, but only to me of course. I don't use terms like honey or dear though. He doesn't have a pet name for me though, but that's cool. At least he doesn't refer to me as the 'ball and chain' or something like that. :tongue_smilie:

 

When you talk with your DH/Wife/Partner, do you use the name that everyone else calls them, or do you use your own pet name you created, or terms of endearment?

 

 

Honey - 90% of the time

 

Grammy still (he's been dead 15 years) calls Grandpop "Daddy". They had 10 kids together, and I guess it became a habit.

[Denisemomof4]

we call each other Hon. When dd11 was little, someone asked her what her mommy's name was. She said Hon.:lol::lol::lol:

[Soror]

hon or babe most always

[lexi]

I guess I always call mine "honey". Not very original. My kids now call him that too. Then my daughter started calling me ketchup. I'm "the other dipping sauce" apparently. Weird what kids will come up with....

[Heather in Neverland]

I call him honey or baby.

[RebeccaS]

It's typically, "Hey Babe" when it's just us. He calls me darlin' which was coined back when we were dating and he poked relentlessly at the country music I listened to at the time. Whenever we're around others, though, I call him by his given name.

[Nakia]

I usually call him by his name or babe.

[bbkaren]

My hubby and I still call each other "Girlfriend" and "Boyfriend." I'm not sure why...:001_huh:

 

We seldom use each other's real names; when we do, we're either in a serious disagreement or speaking to someone else about one another.

 

We get made fun of a fair bit, but can't really think of better substitute names for one another, so we just deal.

[K-FL]

honey or darlin' usually or Mr. D.

[Impish]

His name, Honey, Dear, Sweetie...

[elegantlion]

We use honey for each other. If I hear my first name from his lips, that usually means something bad. :D

[Desert Rat]

I, too, find it weird (not bad) if dh uses my name. It sounds weird. We use a form of Babe. Or I come him Love.

[littlebug42]

I call him all manner of things including Pooh Bear which is from our early dating days (although I don't usually call him that in public). He usually calls me Jen or Babe.

[Haiku]

I call my dh Husband or Loving Husband. I have been known occasionally to call him Husbandito.

 

He calls me Wifey. Or Wifey-butt.

 

Tara

[Hwin]

I call him by his full first name, sometimes "hon."

[PuddleJumper1]

Sometimes his first name but usually Boo - short for Booly. Where it started I don't remember but we've both had the same nickname since before marraige- ends in 'y' for him and 'ie' for me :001_smile:

Edited October 27, 2011 by StillLearning

[Mrs Mungo]

We call each other pootie pie; it is from Calvin and Hobbes. :)

[mrsrevmeg]

I call him so much stuff that when one day when I called him Mark-his real name- he asked if I was mad at him. Most of the time I call him Sweetheart or Love or Sweet Baboo. I call him Dad a lot, but once I did that in public when we did not have the kids with us. :blushing: We have been watching a lot of Jane Austen movies (and other movies set in that time). So we have been calling each other Mr. and Mrs. Gilliland.

[elise1mds]

I call him Babe or Ad most of the time (his name is Adam, but his family is Australian, and they nickname EVERYONE... I didn't even know I could have my named shortened until one of my BILs started calling me Sar-bear). When I want something, he's Dear or Darling. When I'm feeling really ornery, he's Schnuggypoo-Fuzzybutt. :D

[LaxMom]

Honey. He usually answers "yes, my love". If he's calling to me, it's usually "honey? Honey?... Ang!" because he doesn't hear me answer from my corner of the house, lol. (I can hear him because I have the Bat Ears and the wild rumpus doesn't follow me)

 

But, yeah, it would be weird to address him by his name.

[MrsMommy]

I call my DH Mister...unless I really need to get his attention, and then I use his first name. I actually use his given name so seldom, that it really does get his attention when I do!

[Veritaserum]

Most of the time I use his name. Sometimes I use "honey" or "babe" or some other nickname.

[Joker]

I call dh hubby or daddy. In my family my parents mostly used momma and daddy and so did my gparents. I don't know why. Maybe we're weird.

[angela in ohio]

Usually "baby" or "babe," or sometimes "honey" or "hon." :D He always calls me "babe," but sometimes "woman" to be funny.

 

I usually call ds "buddy," and dds "honey," and dh "baby." Sometimes I get them mixed up, and they look at me funny. :001_huh: Like when I call my 9 yo ds "baby." :lol:

[Kirsten in MO]

What a fun thread!

 

I call my dh by his name, or Honey. He calls me Babe or My Love, or Lovely One, but when he is talking to the kids he refers to me as "your dear sweet mother" (as in "Look what you are doing to your dear, sweet mother!" or 'Go take your dear, sweet mother's plate" .

 

It's funny, I still remember when we were dating and he called me "babe" for the first time...I thought, now we are getting somewhere!

[lllll]

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Edited December 25, 2012 by ksva

[mommyrooch]

I call my hubby Honey or Baby.

[KatA]

I say darling or "my love." But I also call my son "my love" so I guess that doesn't count. :001_smile: Come to think of it, my husband doesn't call me much of anything (it's not as unromantic as it sounds!). He hardly says my full name, when he does he's usually frustrated at me.

[Tranquility7]

We never use each others’ names. I feels so unnatural to me!

 

I call DH Beloved, My love, and Love. I also often call him Beroved, because when DS was little, he thought DH’s name was Beloved since I always called him that, but he couldn’t say that, and it came out Beroved. Whenever DS would call to DH, he would holler out, “BeROVed!!!!†It was hilarious, so it kind of stuck, and I use it fairly frequently now. Even DS (now 5) often jokingly uses it when calling DH.

 

DH always calls me Sweetheart. No matter how much I'm driving him crazy! :D

 

Once at church when DS was about 3, someone asked him who his parents were, and he told them Beroved and Sweetheart :lol:

[sassenach]

Love, babe, baby, hon, his name.

[sassenach]

 

Once at church when DS was about 3, someone asked him who his parents were, and he told them Beroved and Sweetheart :lol:

 

That's cute. It reminds me of Jim Dear and Darling from Lady and the Tramp.

[Murphy101]

Daddy

My beloved

Love of my life

First name

[JulieH]

Usually I call him honey, unless he's REALLY pissed me off, in which case I call him by his full name. :lol:

 

Sometimes when we're doing something as a family with the kids I may call him daddy. "Daddy? what do you think?"

[coralloyd]

We both call each other Love.

Never by our names and never something else.

[homeschoolmom]

Depends on the day. ;)

[The Girls' Mom]

Tom most days. Tommy if I'm feeling particularly sentimental (that's what he went by when we were dating)

 

If I'm around the kids, I tend to revert to calling him Dad. But not when I'm talking directly to him.

[HollyBee]

We both call the other "hon". I also call him sweetie, and dad or daddy. Oh, and I call him by his entire first name when I need something (he goes by a nickname).

 

When he feels like teasing me, or if I have done something to exasperate him, he calls me "woman". :lol:

[Rose in BC]

lovie

[thescrappyhomeschooler]

"Dear" 85% of the time. "Sweetie" 10% of the time. His own name 5%.

 

ETA: Dh calls me "Dear" 70% of the time. "Honey" 15% of the time. "Sweets" 10% of the time. "Pretty One" 4% of the time and my own name 1%.

Edited October 27, 2011 by thescrappyhomeschooler

[Scarlett]

I love Milo. So cute.

 

My dh actuallys calls me My Love a lot. He is very sweet and loving and so he uses many sweet terms of endearment. I think he rarely uses my first name.

 

I use his first name A LOT. He has an unusual first name and I love it. I also use lots of terms of endearment.

 

We haven't been married a year yet...so that might make a difference.

[SweetMissMagnolia]

lol I know....unless he's introducing me to someone or something hubby usually calls me "mom/mama" LOL :glare: :glare: sometimes I'll get sweetie or sweetheart.....I guess I call him honey most of the time......or "hey you!" LOL

[FaithManor]

Hey Babe and Darlin' are the standards.

 

He calls me by my first name, always has, always will. I don't think I've ever had a honey or sweetheart out of him unless he was in trouble and groveling for mercy! :D

 

Faith

[justamouse]

I call him hon, babe, and a more formal nickname because we have a son who is named after his father (and grandfather) and son gets the nick name, nick name. :D

 

 

He calls me by my shortened name, but it's not said in his regular voice. He says it a special way, with a different inflection than, say, my mother would. He also calls me babe, and doll.

[HLDoll]

Usually I call him Beloved (which he also uses with me). Sometimes I use Honey.

[Jen in PA]

I use his first name.

[Mommyfaithe]

As I called for my DH this morning, I wondered about what other terms of endearment people use when they talk to each other. I use my DH's name sometimes, but most of the time I call him Milo which is a short version of My Love. It started off as silly fun when we were first married, but became second nature so much that it's just his name now. He'll even sign cards like that, but only to me of course. I don't use terms like honey or dear though. He doesn't have a pet name for me though, but that's cool. At least he doesn't refer to me as the 'ball and chain' or something like that. :tongue_smilie:

 

When you talk with your DH/Wife/Partner, do you use the name that everyone else calls them, or do you use your own pet name you created, or terms of endearment?

 

I call him Husband. :D

 

Sometimes he calls me Myo...which is short for My Ol' Lady or My ol' ball and chain....

 

cute...huh....:glare:

 

Faithe

[specialmama]

I call him Hubs, Hubbers, Hubbly. He calls me Sweety, Kookla, or Kookla-moo (Greek for Baby or Baby Doll.)

[Daisy]

I refer to him by his

 

First name (when I have his attention or know I can get it)

Mr. Last name (when I know it is the only way he'll hear me. It is school teacher-itis).

Kid's name + Dad (as in "Hey, DragonFly's Dad, are you going to go help him since he is yelling for YOU?")