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I use that term (?) "dh" frequently for want of a better term on the net. I have read and always understood it meant, dear husband. Wow. I will still use it as I have never heard of the other explanation.
Yes, a lot of people use it on the Internet. I had just never seen it before I came to City-Data. I had never heard anyone refer to their husband as "dear husband", so that didn't come to mind. Certainly have heard lots of women refer to their husbands as "d*ckhead".
I feel less inclined to comment on this than I would a mother who would call her daughter who is over 15 something like, "Kimmie" or her son who is well into adulthood "Billie."
I had a boss named Tim. He was in his fifties, and a sort of serious, dignified man. One day his wife came to the office to meet him because they were going out afterward, but he was not back from lunch. I saw her sitting in his office and asked if I could get her anything, and she said, "Oh, no, I'm just waiting for Timmy." You know I couldn't keep that to myself, and forever after until he retired, we on his staff all referred to him as Timmy behind his back.
I am called "Mom", "Mommy," "Mamaw", "Ma", "Bev". "Hon" by my family or my friends each of them refer to who I am and I wear each title proudly and with love.
Here, where I live,(Eastern KY) probably 90 percent of the people no matter their age always refer to their parents as Mommy and Daddy.
The very first question any of the really old people here ask a new resident is "Who's your daddy?" They are just curious if they know your family or if you are a relative since most people here are related in some way. Great conversation starter as they can each go on and on with "Do you know______" questions
Am I the only one that cringes when I hear grown kids call their father, "Daddy"?
I don't really think, even if I had had a wonderful loving relationship with my father, I would have called him Daddy in my adult years.
In the South it's more of a cultural thing so hearing it from someone in the South doesn't faze me. In other parts of the country I find it strange. I dated someone that called her mom Mommy all the time and it drove me crazy. I found it so immature.
When I lived in Texas, I found it was very common for both male and female grown adults to refer to their father as "daddy".
For some reason they tended to refer to their mothers as "mother", which I found strange. You'd think it would be "mommy and daddy", but it was "mother and daddy".
Am I the only one that cringes when I hear grown kids call their father, "Daddy"?
I don't really think, even if I had had a wonderful loving relationship with my father, I would have called him Daddy in my adult years.
I love my 20-year-old daughter more than anything. But I've stopped her from calling me that. She's not five anymore.
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