Terms of Endearment

Real Dad Blog Version:  Once the child is born, they get all the terms of endearment.  The term of endearment for this dad is now amounted to the word “butt.”

Before we were married, Melissa and I had a lot of words of endearment for each other.  They were words such as “love”, “hot one” and “sexy”.  We did not use any weird words such “pookie” or even “sweetie”.  We did have other words too to say how much we love each other but I will keep that between my wife and me.  It would be like calling someone “pookie”.

Just like the old saying goes, a lot of things go after marriage.  One of the things that go, is the terms of endearment.   It went both ways.   I stopped saying a lot of those terms to my wife while my wife did also.  I think that being a guy I still use it a little more than my wife.  Talking to other married men, it seems to be that way unless they get called those weird names as “pookie”.

Once I became a dad, the terms of endearment stopped.  I think it goes directly to the kid.  It sure went directly to my son.  His mom tells him how much she loves him, she calls him “sweetie”, “lou-lou” which is short for “lovey lou”, “love” and the terms of endearment go on and on.

Being a new dad and a husband, I may be a little jealous of my son getting those terms of endearment instead of me from his mom.  I am just lucky to be called a “butt”.

To my wife: I still love you hot one and yes you still call me babe.

To all the readers of the Real Dad Blog:  We still do other things that keep the flame going besides terms of endearment.  To have a great marriage and to be a good role model to your children, you must keep that flame going.

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