I have absolutely no problem being called love, hun, ower kid or Uncle Tom Cobley.
I'll tell you this for nothing if I was lying trapped under a car or being pulled out of a fire I would'nt care what the firmen called me. If I was ill in hospital I would like to know they know my name or have empathy in doing their job they can call me what they like too. The last thing I would stress over is what I was being called.
Maybe this depends on your up-bringing. I was born in a little village in Somerset and all my friends and family are warm hearted folk and use my lover; cocker; darlin as a normal way of talking and it is the same wherever I have lived. Each area has it's own colloquialism, it is whether we like it or not part of the social history of our countries. I actually like it.
Should women have equal pay and opportunities?
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