How Do You Address Your Husband?

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I say, "hey." LOL. We don't have pet names for each other, but we don't use each others names. It works for us! I absolutely can't stand when people call me "sweetie," "honey," or any pet names. If someone doesn't even know me, I don't need them making up names for me. UGH...so annoying! I'm not talking about you, or anything. I'm just speaking in a general sense. If someone refers to me as honey,or something...I tell them, "My name is, ..." I really hate it.

I call my husband babycakes, Kenneth when he's in trouble, Kenny (only other person who could call him that was his grandmother), or tow truck because he wanted a nickname more manly than babycakes and at the time that was all I could think of!

I call my husband Jon or Jonathon, depending, or daddy around the kids. I don't think I use any pet names, but sometimes we use "Honey Bunny" as a joke because a friend made it up as our obnoxious pet name for each other.

I usually address other people as "ma'am" or "sir" depending on their gender, miss if a young lady appears to be in her teens or younger. My husband addresses waitresses as "miss," though, which I find highly amusing. :)

Oh, and I agree about finding "sweetie" or "honey" really annoying coming from other people--unless I'm related or a really close friend, I find name shortening or anything like "sweetie" to be extremely obnoxious or slightly amusing, but never welcome. :) I try to be nice to people about it though.

Don't have a husband, but I do have a hersband. :)
I call my lady "Babe" most of the time, or "pookie". I only call her by her first name when I really need her attention. She's "hun" when she's in trouble. When she's REALLY in trouble, I don't call her anything!

I call him by his name, I am not big into pet names. It's weird to me.

I call him 'Hun, babe, or TJ.' The sad thing is we were together for over a year before I figured out his name was Travis, NOT Tyson. O_o lol..

My husband's name is Chadwick and everyone calls him Chad for short, but I felt bad for the left out "wick" part of his name so my pet name for him is "Wicky-poo." He cringes when I call him "Wicky-poo" in public :)

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Babe, sometimes it feels weird to say his real name. LOL. I don't know why but I won't let him call me mom, As in Hey Mom come here, it bugs me and I am not really sure why. LOL.

I'll call him Sweetie. And *cringe* sometimes Daddy, especially if we're sitting at the table with the kids. He knows I'm about to say something really important when I call him by his given name. "MARK. You will be late for work if you don't get up NOW."

Hon, babe, fella, Sexyman, chico.

The Man.
When I complain about him to my sisters we call him Brutus, tehehe.

But I try to say, I love you, Edsel. Using his actual name has a greater effect!

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I'll call him either "hun" or by his name, or "Daddy" around our daughter. I'll call our daughter "buddy" or "bud" sometimes haha

When I first met my husband, I only knew him by his nickname, "Phoenix". So that's all I called him then. Somehow I slowly transitioned into using his real name & I don't use his nickname anymore.

first name or babe. around kids i call him hey dad. or daddy.

'babe' 99% of the time. i only call him 'david' when i'm talking ABOUT him. but i'm blown away how many of the rest of you do it too!
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I do use his name, but it's often "hon." The thing that we BOTH use the most though, is "dude!" Everyone thinks it's hysterical that my husband calls me "dude," but it works for us! Sometimes the kids even join in. Funny.

I usually call my husband Hunny or babe. On the rare occasion when I have to address him by his name, it just sounds so weird!

It's usually Honey or Pookie. He calls me Babe or Honey. I don't know why but, on those odd occassions when he calls me by my first name, I automatically think that I'm in trouble for something (even though I'm not) because he rarely calls me by my given name.

I actually call him a lot by his name but I also call him "chico ". A spanish word like boy. He calls me "angel".

I either call him by his first name or Sweetheart. And there have been many many times that I've called him by his first name and got no response, but Sweetheart will get his attention every time. But I've called him Sweetheart since before we dated and were just friends, so he's heard it for nearly 20 years.
And he rarely calls me by my name. When he does it always sounds weird to me. He doesn't call me any nickname either. He just talks to me.

I shorten my husband's name. He has a wierd name that NO ONE in the world is named, I swear. I call him "Silver" (sounds like seal-ber). Sometimes he gets "honey"....but really I just call him by his name.
I don't call people that I don't know by any other name....I hate it when people call me "hon" or "sweetie".
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i always call him by his first name. He always calls me by my first name, and occasionaly he calls me.. 'hey you.' lol

I call my husband "babe" so much that I asked my almost 3 yr old son last week "What's Dada's name?" and his answer -- "BABE." He goes up to my husband sometimes and says "Love you, Babe" just like I do.

Mostly "babe."
I call people younger then me (i'm almost 29) "sweets," or "sugar." Not sure why, just always have.

Usually Babes, Hon, or Eagleheart (goes back to a travel story he told me early on). If I call him by his given name, he knows I'm about to discuss an issue that's very serious to me.

I've heard that children are given middle names so they'll know when they are in deep trouble: "Jacob Allen Smith, you come in her right now!"

Since were BOTH named Chris we never call each other that. I have called him "The Big Man" f-o-r-e-v-e-r and now that he lost over 60 pounds and looks like he did in high school. Now I call him the "Former Big Man."

I call him "husband" "sweet husband","husband of mine" "honey""hon" "sweetie" "sweetie pie", "honey bunch""dad" "Daddy", "my dear", "sweet cheeks", "baby" "super dad" "babe", "lover"

or "matt", lol

Same here. I call my hubby Babe, Baby, hun, honey and everyone else younger than me sweetie... =D

I call him; Babe, baby, Benny (his name is Benjamin), Shrimp Boy (Inside Joke:) I call him Ben when I need to get his attention about something ''serious''. He never uses my name and when he does it's when we are arguing and he says; ''You know what, Maria blah-blah-blah...'' Ohhh it just sounds sooo weird! Lol.

i call both of my men "babe" or "baby". sometimes my husband is "daddy" if i am referring to him to my son. i am "baby", or "mommy". we don't call each other "mommy" and "daddy" except for the sake of our son. the only time i call either my son or my husband by their name is when they are in trouble. it's an affection thing. i try not to call anyone "sweetie" or "hun" unless i am friends with them - i am a team leader at work so it's kind of a bad habit to get into. i may care about people and look at them sort of as my "kids" (at least, people i care about, and who i am responsible for) but i have to keep in mind to stay professional.

For me it depends, Boog is the nickname I gave him when we first got together. I also call him babe, or Daddy a lot of the time (not in the creepy way, just because the kids are around), but a lot of the time I just call him by his name.

I call him by his name...Every now and then I use "Sweetie" but I'm not into that so much and it always feels weird. Sometimes I'm being funny and call him by his last name.

I don't remember the last time I heard him say my real name,if he is mad at me or upset he'll just talk with nor regard in naming me,I call him by his first if we are out & he fails to hear me other than that it is Babe same with him

We've been together for 6 1/2 years and I always call him a pet name. Usually babe-we joke that our daughter must think that's his name! I only say his name if I am angry or trying to make a point. Same goes for him-I am pet names unless he is angry lol.

I call him Babe. Unless I call him a couple times and he doesn't hear me. Then its his first name in an annoyed tone!

I'm not sure I know what my name sounds like coming out of my husband's mouth... Hahaha. We call each other "Babe". I do call him by his first name occasionally, but only when it goes something like this... "Hey Babe... Babe... Babe... Babe... RICK!!!!!!" Hahaha. :-)

We called each other Honey and also used our full first names. This is in the past tense because I am a widow.

I usually use his name or the occasional Darlin', maybe sweetie - not so much that one tho because I call my daughter that. I'm not a southerner, but I like shortening darling to darlin'... sounds more intimate to me.

Babe or his actual name. He always calls me Babe or Baby, Its super weird when he calls me my name, I think he's mad or something. He used to try to call me these crazy pet names and I got mad at him and now he just sticks to babe. lol. I also cal my daughter baby, but usually in a different tone... she is 2.

My friend and her husband call eachother "Dear" and it sounds super forced and antiquated. Kind of makes my skin crawl, because it makes me think that they are playing house. There are other aspects of their lives that also contribute to this feeling, so maybe it's not just the "Dear." My hubby and I use "hon" and "honey."

I am 29 and been married to my husband Dustin for 11 yrs. (together14) I only ever call him by his name if I am mad other then that its babe or honey and he does the same. If I hear my name I know hes mad about something and same with me.

Usually I call him J or babe. His name is Jason and I usually only say it when I'm talking to someone else about him.

Sweetcheeks or Honey....His family gave him the nickname Mack...Love calling him that but he hates it....I call him by his given name when I need to get his attention....Now the names I give my kids...A list a mile long.

The only time I call him by his name is when I'm calling him from another room, or need his attention. Mostly I call him babe, hon, and if I want something - honey baby pookey bear followed by a head tilt, smile and blinking eyes haha!

He's pretty much "first name". Never big on the pet names and his first name isn't one that can be shortened, it is a name that's normally a nickname from a longer formal name as it is. We've been married almost 16 years and together 4 years before that.
Overall I prefer people's names over pet names or nicknames or even titles(Mr, Mrs, Ms etc). Neither my husband or I are big on them at all. The only exception is when the title is also the job description (Dr or the Mr, Mrs, Ms for a teacher) If I don't know (or remember a name LOL) I use Sweetie or the ever easy Hey You ;) Of course I'd hope to never need that for my husband LOL

We do the usual honey, baby, babe etc. But the thing we also do is call each other by our last name sometimes. Sometimes I even call him by the first letter of our last name, like if he makes an awesome sale at work I will high five him and say "way to go B!" Sometimes when I feeling in a cute or sassy mood I will even call him Mr. and our last name. :D

I call my, soon to be husband, honey, baby, sugar, love, hun and he calls me Princess.