Don't call him babe!

I dislike the word "hubby", don't like the way it sounds and feel it suggests some kind of ownership of the life partner or husband. Yuk. It's almost as bad as referring to your female life partner or wife, as "the wife" bigger yuk

I don't like hubby either. There's two words I don't like and hubby is one of them and grub as in food is the other.

anneliz, I use hubby and I think I have used it in a post here somewhere. TBH I don't use it that often. (you will be glad to know)

It's hard being a MIL. That's all.

Two paces not two laces (fat fingers!)

The name I can't stand is 'hubby'. It it somehow demeaning and emasculating. It brings to my mind an image of a little henpecked, dominated chap in a beige cardigan walking two laces behind his wife, doing what he's told!
Sorry, I know lots of people use it and it's supposed to be affectionate but do they get called 'wifey' in return? I don't think so...

(Off to put on my protective gear and stand by for the onslaught of protests from those who call their husbands 'hubby' )

@feetlebaum - laughing, not out loud but quietly to myself, at the mental image conjured up by your post!

meant

Well I knew what you mrant

Not her above comment about Bristol. The one before about " the North".
Think I'll go away and play somewhere else !

Got that in the wrong place. It was a segue from NinatheNana's comment

And more specifically a North Eastener? I quite like pet when it comes from there.

I think I'd object to that, elrel. A headteacher shouldn't be using endearments to pupils but perhaps he doesn't regard the term as an endearment. I rather hope not!

None of the other uses would bother me at all, not even being called dear by a nurse. My surname's unpronounceable to most people anyway even, or perhaps especially, if they see it written down.

Dear, duck, luv, etc are fine with me, or my first name. I'm also fine with not being called anything by people who don't know me from Eve.

Don't mind any other endearment except for babe and my particular hate - hun!

My 15 year old granddaughter tells me that her headteacher calls the older girls 'babe'. They are not impressed by him and nor am I!

My DH calls me Pet or Lamb, I call him My Love or Sweetheart within the family/friend circle. I think it comes from closeness and is comforting. Where I live the term Love is used very generally and I'd never be offended.

However, during the course of his employment my DH was a witness in a court prosecution. The female Barrister asked him a question to which he said ( unprofessional I agree) Could you repeat that Love!!

Said Barrister replied with a strump that she was not his 'Love' and not to address her as such. The Court laughed and the Judge asked that she accept the term in the manner in which it was intended.

I know "my lover" is common in the West country, odd that mum and my grannie never used it. They were both born near Bristol.

I agree with grapefruit it can be tiresome to hear a pet name over and over.

@Rubyredshoes - In Cornwall 'my lover' was very common - I worked on a weighbridge in a Clay harbour, and I must confess it seemed a little odd to be addressed as 'my lover' (Or 'my bird' or of course 'my 'andsome') by a hulking great lorry driver - I was a bloke in my twenties...

thank you *notspaghetti,matella and sparky*xx

downtoearth have a bunch of on me. Dealing with illness of loved one is so difficult take care of yourself too

Here in Bristol the term of endearment is lover! "How are you my lover", "there you go my lover", "there's your change my lover". I hear these on a daily basis but I still can't quite get used to it. I think I expect to turn around and see my late mother standing there with a wait until I get you home expression on her face.

I'm guessing your FiL was a Northerner Susan

Not a name I'd call someone else, but babe doesn't really bother me. "Pet" is the one I don't like. Many years ago it was my father in law's name for me. I hated it but never said anything - it was his way of showing affection.

I'm guilty of calling my ££ year old son "Baby" or "babe"... he will say "Me babe or him babe" as I also call his son, my DGS, babe, too... no-one else tho'. the rest are called "darling" "Sweetie" or various other endearments, including "fatso" for the (thin) DGS.