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Maybe it's just me, but these are not names a married couple should be calling each other if they want to have a vibrant happy sex life! (though referring to each other by those names in conversation with children would be fine)
I think it's childish and silly but woman where I live constantly call me my sister's dog's father (which I find completely strange). I think some people just have a need to use terms of endearment like that all the time.
I recall a scene on M.A.S.H. When harry Morgan had joined the cast when col Potter said 'I wish mother were here' (referring to his wife when they threw him an wedding anniversary party) and my mom saying she hated when people talk like that.
2Mares, I think you may have missed the post a few above mine (and then repeated a couple posts above this one), where the silly assumption was made that if a couple does this, then they must have awful sex lives. Nonsense. I was responding to that.
We are mommy and daddy. If I say his real name he knows he's in trouble...lol. Likewise, he seems to only say my real name when he wants a serious talk, or during sex. Otherwise, mommy.
Maybe it's just me, but these are not names a married couple should be calling each other if they want to have a vibrant happy sex life! (though referring to each other by those names in conversation with children would be fine)
And there is definitely not anything wrong with our sex life! We are freaks.
i thought only old people in movies from the 30's did this. i sure didnt know it was still going on! my parents nor anyone in my family has ever done this. i wouldnt want my DH using it. i mean, i am not his mother--i have told him so many times---LOL
I think some parents just get into the habit of referring to one another as Mom and Dad ("Dad will be home soon," like someone said), and it just starts spilling over. My grandparents call one another "Mother" and "Dad." My gram will say something on the phone like, "Oh, Dad just got back from the store," and she always explains afterward, "Oops, I mean your grandfather." I'm 37 ... I know whom you mean, Grandma! I know she didn't mean MY dad or hers!
My husband and I may occasionally call one another "Mommy" and "Daddy" in the presence of the children, as in, "Mommy, where did you put the sleds?" but that's rare. We typically use our names or silly nicknames. He has a new one for me that makes me giggle but it is super cheesy. Like "sugarbear" but sillier.
I've never liked the "mama, mommy, mother, daddy, papa, father" between spouses thing myself. For some reason it always kind of bugged me and I honestly can't tell you why. My wife and I call each other by our names or our pet names, which I am sure can be as equally annoying to others as mom or dad is to me. For me, this is whole question is best answered in the words of my younger daughter, "It's whatever."
I've never liked the "mama, mommy, mother, daddy, papa, father" between spouses thing myself. For some reason it always kind of bugged me and I honestly can't tell you why.
I know why it bugs me. It implies prudishness, sexlessness, and even incest to some extent... It's plain weird.
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We are freaks.
