Just saying.
I have never been a fan of pet names. I think they’re too cheesy and overrated. It’s annoying, and even more so when you see your ex-boyfriend calling his present girlfriend with the same pet name he used to call you. Oh, it’s not a matter of bitter feelings and being not or over him but the fact that pet names can be too generic. Which makes me think that the meaning and feelings that name supposedly carries can be applicable to anyone else. The idea of generality. That you can be just another ‘sweetheart’, ‘honey’, or ‘cutie patootie’ in his life. It’s not wrong though, but wouldn’t it hurt the way you see yourself?
IMO, I love you’s and everyday sweet talk definitely sound better with the name you were born with. It gets you giddy while exuding an air of sincerity and certainty. In a way it makes you feel that with whatever he’s saying (and assuming he means it), he means you. That in the memory of the words that linger, you know they weren’t for anyone else, but you.















