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Any pet names really bother you? - 8/13/2008 8:29:22 AM   
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Consecrated2God had an interesting point the other day on one of the forums, so I thought I would open lines of communication and ask the ladies to sound off on any pet names that bother them, and why.

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RE: Any pet names really bother you? - 8/13/2008 9:37:08 AM   
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names that other people use that would bother me if someone used them with me

wifey
snuggums
snuggle bunny
doobers
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RE: Any pet names really bother you? - 8/13/2008 9:54:16 AM   
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anything resembly food....muffin, brownie - ya know. But I think its just a pet peeve for me....
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RE: Any pet names really bother you? - 8/13/2008 11:05:32 AM   
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call me crazy but I just want to be called by my given name.
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RE: Any pet names really bother you? - 8/13/2008 9:56:32 PM   
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I love it when my boyfriend calls me pet names. It's so sweet and cute and always gets at least a giggle out of me.

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RE: Any pet names really bother you? - 8/14/2008 12:33:04 PM   
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We rarely use each others actual names. We usually call each other honey or sweetie. However to tease one another sometimes we will come up with silly, sappy and completely ridiculous names for each other. So I guess there are no pet names that really bother me.

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RE: Any pet names really bother you? - 8/15/2008 6:21:09 AM   
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For me, it's not so much what the pet name is, it's who it's coming from. There are certain people in my life who can get away with calling me most anything and it doesn't bother me (or bother me much). What bothers me about pet names is when people who don't know me call me by them. IMO, you earn the right to use a pet name with someone. Obviously, there are exceptions. When some 70 year old man comes into my place of work (not anymore cuz I don't work face to face with the public) and calls me 'honey' during the process of the transaction, that's usually okay. Although there are some creep old guys, too...

I don't think there is a specific pet name that makes me crazy. Maybe sweetheart... I'm not in a relationship, and that just seems too romantic for anyone to be saying to me.


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RE: Any pet names really bother you? - 8/15/2008 8:27:43 AM   
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a childish version of my real name, there is only one person in the world who can get away with it.

Dawn > dawnie.

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RE: Any pet names really bother you? - 8/15/2008 1:22:10 PM   
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My mother calls me Angel. She always has but she's the only one that gets away with it. Of course she's the only one that thinks I represent the name!!!

Hubby and I have pet names for each other and that's fun. He just recently came up with a cute one that makes me giggle.

I guess my only pet peeve for pet names are when people that I don't even know ~ like waitresses ~ call me or especially my husband "hun". I don't think that's cool.


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RE: Any pet names really bother you? - 8/16/2008 10:43:18 AM   
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My ex husband used to call me Babe.
I thought it was sweet till I realized he called every woman Babe.

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RE: Any pet names really bother you? - 9/4/2008 8:52:23 PM   
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I hate nearly all pet names, Expecially to someone that I am not mutually attracted to. It irritates me when I hear a coworker call me a pet name if they are male and 30 years older than myself!
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RE: Any pet names really bother you? - 9/18/2008 9:23:34 AM   
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My husband and I actually had this conversation at the very beginning of our relationship. In my "previous life", my name was Hon'... you know... short for Honey. Except it wasn't very sweet. It can be said in such a hateful tone. My given name was only used in public, like if he had to call me from across the room, and he would walk a mile to avoid that.

"Babe" seems kind of generic. But when my husband calls me "Baby", it makes all the difference. I truly think it is the way he says it, though.

Pet names do not bother me if spoken with love...

but I do not respond favorably to any pet name spoken in anger or ridicule.
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RE: Any pet names really bother you? - 9/18/2008 12:13:15 PM   
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Can't think of any offhand, but if he calls me something and I don't like it, he will know.

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RE: Any pet names really bother you? - 9/27/2008 2:16:06 AM   
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When I was in college, an ex-boyfriend ONCE called me Thunder Butt.

I slugged him.

He never did THAT again.

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RE: Any pet names really bother you? - 10/1/2008 5:07:57 PM   
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I've been called Cookie and Pumpkin, neither one of which I liked.

But when my husband calls me Baby, and I loooove that.

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RE: Any pet names really bother you? - 10/1/2008 5:22:28 PM   
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Oh, don't call be "babe"!

I don't like a few of the others listed, but "babe" will nearly get you punched. Also, like what boots said - pet names are earned.......

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RE: Any pet names really bother you? - 10/2/2008 10:33:15 AM   
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Pet names don't really bug me, most of my friends call me "Tink" or "Chick".

The only thing that bugs me is when someone who I don't like calls me "sweetheart" or "cutie", I

really would only feel comfortable with my future boyfriend/husband calling me either of those.

Other than that, pet names are okay as long as you have earned the right to call me them, you

have to be one of my good friends first, then I really don't care.

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RE: Any pet names really bother you? - 10/2/2008 12:33:12 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: revbob4God

Consecrated2God had an interesting point the other day on one of the forums, so I thought I would open lines of communication and ask the ladies to sound off on any pet names that bother them, and why.


Well I generaly give pet names and nicks first, spontaneuos and is steady depending the persons names and ways..but is goes like repeating the persons first letters names like Gig, Jojo, Vivi, Dada...lol..or when it goes so cute is patiti, puchuchu, and ending with "inho" because is diminutive in my mother tongue...and funny that foreign peoples friend kind of imitates me and return the same pet name or simply apply "Dri"..

Reggarding English I dislike very much "hubby" sound and give chills..but I may dislike pet names because of the sound of it in any language very much but the reality is, nobody calls me that or I will apply it ever even if marry someday.

I am cool with my choices and if somebody call me something I have problem with I will ask to come up with another choice that sounds better, to me. Funny that I just remember a male friend as his name started with D and I came up calling him Ddi..lol and he told me "I don't like that.it sounds feminine"...I try not use it but ended up using anyways and he ended up not bother by it..hmmm...but I when don't like it ad people insists I sure tell people to stop it! and they do..well my brother did not but he was into bullying me when we were kids...that is different and irritates big time.

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RE: Any pet names really bother you? - 10/2/2008 7:00:40 PM   
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Pet names from my husband spoken in love do not bother me at all! I love them!!!

Pet names from other people is another thing. I cannot stand when I hear guys talk about "the wife" as though she were his possession. I also can't stand when guys I don't know refer to myself or other women as 'chick', 'sweety' or 'hun'. Blech.

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RE: Any pet names really bother you? - 10/3/2008 1:44:23 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Harvie
When I was in college, an ex-boyfriend ONCE called me Thunder Butt.

I slugged him.

He never did THAT again.

Bwahahahahahaha! That was great! You're cute! Can you give me his address so I can look him up and slug him, too??????

My precious children call me mom, and that still makes my heart zing. My grandchildren call me grandma, and I love that! My boss calls me by my name, as do all my REAL friends. But my husband can call me anything he wants, because he is not obnoxious about it. However, he would even consider calling me by my old name.

Although my name was legally changed aeons ago, certain family members call me by my old first name, even writing it on envelopes. That is obnoxious, stubborn, and thoughtless. But while I still love them, I really dislike that strongly. They have No Clue how strongly I dislike that. Or maybe they do. It is disgusting.

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RE: Any pet names really bother you? - 10/3/2008 5:34:00 PM   
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Don't have much experience with pet names, but "babe"... no thank you. It sounds ordinary and a little cheap to me. My mother tongue is Dutch and even in Dutch I'm not so keen on the pet names I hear some people use pet names. Call me weird but it sounds so unnatural for me even though it's my first language.

I guess I prefer to be a called a short version or a sweet version of my name

Natasja -> Tasha, Tashi, Tash, Tashilein (last one is German version)
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RE: Any pet names really bother you? - 10/4/2008 5:27:49 AM   
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A pet name would REALLY bother me:

1.) When it's obviously a putdown, such as Fatso or Funnyface or some other insult, and then they claim they meant it affectionately, and I'm too sensitive if it hurts my feelings.
2.) When it's used in a condescending manner or in a tone of voice that one would use to talk to small children.
3.) When a man I'm only beginning to investigate the possibility of dating, as in we've only spoken maybe once or twice, is already making with the Sweetie and Angel. (This is no longer a situation that I expect to be in--I'm getting married next month.)
4.) When it is a little too sexually charged.

My fiancé can call me anything he wants. He usually addresses me as Love.

But the funny thing is, he calls me Love so often, when he calls me by my name, I wonder if he's mad at me.

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RE: Any pet names really bother you? - 10/16/2008 3:50:32 AM   
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I hate "boo" or any twist on it (such as "boo boo"). I don't mind slang in general - a lot of it is imaginative and novel - it kind of puts a new twist on things; but for some reason I hate "boo." I also hate "hon" and "sweetie" - unfortunately both are common in the south (which is where I live).
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RE: Any pet names really bother you? - 10/16/2008 11:46:37 AM   
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I just don't like pet names. If you're not southern or 70 years old there's no reason to call me sweetie or dear and there's never a good reason to call me babe or baby. I'm not an infant.

I don't mind nicknames but pet names are silly.

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RE: Any pet names really bother you? - 10/16/2008 2:47:48 PM   
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