My partner and I have tried out various terms of endearment (like “love”, “dear”, “baby” or “babe”), but none of them ever sounded natural when either of us used them — it just ended up being silly, and so we do occasionally pepper them into conversation, when we’re being silly.
The one I tend to use most often is “my love”, because it feels silly in an overly poetic and melodramatic manner. Recently I also used “my serendipitous saccharide” (saccharide meaning sugar, because he’s sweet, and serendipitous because this relationship was a surprise to both of us).
Anyway, I’m running out of ideas for terms that will evoke an affectionate eye roll out of him. Any suggestions?
My wife’s name is Kat, so our pet name for her is Kitten,
My wife and I have been together over 40 years. I call her “old woman” and she calls me “old man”.
Long time ago I learned people from croatia say “oko moja” to their partners which just translates to “my eye” this is silly and clever in a way I can’t stop thinking about.
I think the best ones stem from deep shared history. One time, I spilled a little blue paint on the toe of my shoe. For a few months whenever I wore those shoes my partner would occasionally say something like “here comes ol’ blue toe” just to get a chuckle out of me. It was stupid and perfect.
Eventually, that transformed into “blue guy” with occasional mutations: big blue guy, big blue, or just plain “blue”.
We have other nicknames for each other too, but that one has been around for years and is one of my favorites.
A key is being able to lovingly poke fun at each other, and not take yourselves too seriously. Sounds like you’ve got both of those things, so just keep an eye out for an opportunity to make your own!
My crumpet
Possum.
I’ve always liked dearheart, too.
But I mostly call my wife Killer.
Ones I use: “My liege”, pal, beans, Slagathor, buns, honey buns, honey bunches of oats, oats, oat milk, oat milk latte, latte, soy latte, soy, soy sauce (you have to do this in a progression or else it won’t make any sense)
Thrustmaster
Big Dawg or Heckin Chungus Wife
Just kidding. I used to put on a raspy smoker’s voice and day “Sugah Tits”
In my former married life, my wife was a fair bit shorter than me, so I’d occasionally call her ‘low-pockets’. When we got a dog, he became ‘no-pockets’. When we had a baby, he became ‘small pockets’. I did only actually use these terms a couple of times as a gag though.
Little Poop, Little Fart, Little Terror, Little Pug (as in the dog). Believe it or not these are all extremely common in Dutch!
Edit: to be fair they sound better in dutch
Lmao what are they in Dutch!?
For fart, the word in Dutch is close to our word for precious. The others I haven’t really heard, but it’s not the kind of thing you’d say in public anyway.
Poepje, scheetje, (not sure), moppie. Although I don’t think the last one is anywhere related to the actual dog lol.
Believe it or not? Little Poop, Little Fart, Little Terror, and Little Pug. (I don’t speak Dutch)
Thanks, gonna use these in English for my English speaking gf
I’ve always loved mon petit chou chou which is roughly “my little cabbage cabbage” from French. I also like jannu, which I think is “my soul” in Urdu? Also solnyshko, little sun, from the Russian, is very fun.
Pumpkin
Senpai
Bonus points if you make an overly exaggerated effort to talk like a caricature of an anime romcom protagonist.
Suggestions, courtesy of MST3k:
Slab Bulkhead
Bridge Largemeat
Punt Speedchunk
Butch Deadlift
Hold Bigflank
Splint Chesthair
Flint Ironstag
Bolt Vanderhuge
Thick McRunfast
Blast Hardcheese
Buff Drinklots
Crunch Slamchest
Fist Rockbone
Stump Beefknob
Smash Lampjaw
Punch Rockgroin
Buck Plankchest
Stump Junkman
Dirk Hardpec
Rip Steakface
Slate Slabrock
Crud Bonemeal
Brick Hardmeat
Rip Slagcheek
Punch Sideiron
Gristle McThornbody
Slate Fistcrunch
Buff Hardback
Bob Johnson
Blast Thickneck
Crunch Buttsteak
Slab Squatthrust
Lump Beefbroth
Touch Rustrod
Beef Blastbody
Big McLargehuge
Smoke Manmuscle
Beat Punchmeat
Hack Blowfist
Roll Fizzlebeef
