What do you call your SO?

[iguana_tonante]

So, my fiancée is away for a few days and I'm missing her a bit, and I thought "what would be a very sweet yet extremely embarrassing topic I could conjure right now thinking about her?"

So I wondered, how do you call your SO? I was one of those guys that back in the days swore they would never use those silly names, nevah evah. And you know? I do. I guess my manly manliness now is measured differently since I was an angsty teenager.

Most of the time, I just call her by her first name (which is short and doesn't need shortening), but I also call her a vast array of expressions, like amore, tesoro, cara, bella, which would be respectively love, honey (lit: treasure), dear, beauty. Sometimes I call her baby (in english), querida (in spanish) or chérie (in french) when I'm being silly or I want to make clear I'm trying to woo her. She appreciate it. I'm not very found of overly complicated expressions, they just sound artificial.

What is your favourite form of address?

 

[Plecostomus]

Jen, Jenerator, Jeneral Mayham, The Squishy One (or variations of that) and Wife Unit.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Jen, Jenerator, Jeneral Mayham, The Squishy One (or variations of that) and Wife Unit.

Do you call her those, or do you use them to refer to her in conversation? Because I have an hard time picturing someone calling out "Would you come here please, Wife Unit?"

 

[Drogo]

Hey You

 

[Nardpuncher]

Real name: Vivian AKA: Vivi

 

[Kestra]

Snugglebunny or just "bunny". I slipped around one of my good friends once and called him "bunny" on the phone, and she couldn't believe it. They all think I'm this cynical non-romantic non-cutesy person.

Edit: That's of course when I'm not calling him by his name, or the nickname version of his real name.

 

[Plecostomus]

Jen, Jenerator, Jeneral Mayham, The Squishy One (or variations of that) and Wife Unit.

Do you call her those, or do you use them to refer to her in conversation? Because I have an hard time picturing someone calling out "Would you come here please, Wife Unit?"

Yes.

 

[Angry Angel]

Terribly boring ... sweetie or baby.

 

[Cakes488]

Right now: nothing

But when I have a man I do admit I make up some very cute names.

 

[Pindar]

By her first name.

 

[Finn]

Sweetie, Grace, Gracie (I'm looking forward to when she's pregnant so I can quote Spock but I probably shouldn't tell her that).

 

[Shaw]

"My Love" (or sometimes "Most Beloved")

Sadly it is a totally unconscious thing at this point, so when I say it in the middle of an argument it tends to undercut my position.

There are others, but what they are (and how they are spelled) would compromise security (plus I don't use them nearly as much as the ones above).

 

[Mr Light]

Cheryl, Cher-Balls, Jimmy, My Lovely Love (facetiously)... sadly this is not a joke! But my personality is

 

[auntiehill]

I call him by his name. If I really want something from him, it's "Honey.....?"

 

[thumbtack]

"She who is not worthy to have me." What? I like it.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Do you call her those, or do you use them to refer to her in conversation? Because I have an hard time picturing someone calling out "Would you come here please, Wife Unit?"

Yes.

Ok, you are weird. Funny, but weird.

Cheryl, Cher-Balls, Jimmy, My Lovely Love (facetiously)... sadly this is not a joke! But my personality is

...Jimmy?

"My Love" (or sometimes "Most Beloved")

Sadly it is a totally unconscious thing at this point, so when I say it in the middle of an argument it tends to undercut my position.

Me too. Also when I'm with other people, like friends or coworkers. I try to refrain from that, but sometimes it's just unconscious. And then I get "geez, get a room, you two!" looks.

Oh, and I forgot about one. Sometimes I call her cip (pronounced like chip). It's a short of cipolla, onion. I started to call her that after watching Shrek, you know, the whole "onions have layers" dialog. No, she didn't kick me in the shins for that. I dunno why, probably she is resigned by now.

And she sometimes calls me iguy, which is so awesome I have no words for it.

 

[trampledamage]

Whenever I'm tired I completely lose the ability to remember useful things like names (not that I forget who people are, it's just my brain and mouth refuse to sync up and say the right name) so I call my husband and both of my kids "sweetheart".

 

[captcalhoun]

my ex was 'luce' 'lulu' 'loo' or just her name, Lucinda. a friend calls his GF 'peaches' because of her 'peachy bum' as he put it. i once called her 'mel' short for 'melons' in reference to another bodypart altogether... (not to her face, i add)

 

[Tiberius Jim]

I have the standard "sweetie" "sweetness" "babe" "baby" "honey" "dear" "my love" and of course her first name, but the more or less official nickname I have for her is "sweet pea" Not sure where it came from, I just thought of it one day and it stuck.

 

[TheBrew]

"Righty"



What, someone had to do it.