We both call each other Boo. As in, “Hey Boo, can you get me a drink?” “Sure Boo, here you go.” And we sign emails “Love, Boo” sometimes.
It probably sounds like we’re rapping or something, because I hear “my boo” a lot in urban music these days. But I swear, we started saying it before we heard it anywhere else.
Sometimes, I call him Love or Lovey. He doesn’t have a good nicknamey name, but I do, so he uses my shortened first name a lot.
Me to her: Hunny Bunny, m’luv. and the Spanish Inquisition.
Her to me: Usually, honey or Hunny Bunny.
We generally only use first names when we’re angry or about to start a serious conversation.
That’s exactly what I was going to say. We’ve been calling each other Boo for more than a decade. Now it’s everywhere. Did we start something?
We have been known to also call each other Nummy Muffin Cuckoo Butter, which may have come from MST3K. I can’t remember anymore. But Boo is our default nickname. I call my kids “Pooh” from Winnie-the-. Of course, they’re little boys, so they probably think it comes from poopy, which is their favorite word.