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" Honey, baby, sweetie&amp;amp;#8212;all words that make me cringe! Here&amp;#x27;s why...I come from a &amp;amp;#8220;no pet name&amp;amp;#8221; family. Strange, but true&amp;amp;#8212;there was a nary a cutesy nickname uttered in our house. It has never been something we do. When I am in my mom&amp;amp;#8217;s favor she calls me Kris. When I&amp;amp;#8217;m not, it&amp;amp;#8217;s Kristen Leigh. You know she&amp;amp;#8217;s mad at my dad when she refers to him as &amp;amp;#8220;your father,&amp;amp;#8221; otherwise, it&amp;amp;#8217;s &amp;amp;#8220;Daddy&amp;amp;#8221; or &amp;amp;#8220;Steve.&amp;amp;#8221; For my family, syrupy terms of endearment have always been few and far between. And, frankly, it&amp;amp;#8217;s turned me into a bit of a nut. Recently, in an attempt to comfort me after I stubbed my toe, my boyfriend addressed me as &amp;quot;sweetie.&amp;quot; &amp;amp;#8220;Why did you just call me sweetie?&amp;amp;#8221; I asked, sufficiently freaked out. I call my boyfriend David. That&amp;amp;#8217;s it. That&amp;amp;#8217;s his name, so that&amp;amp;#8217;s what I call him. After more than a year, I find out that David comes from a family that uses pet names quite liberally. Great. Have you ever heard a couple go back and forth like it&amp;amp;#8217;s some kind of contest&amp;amp;#8212;honeybuns, sweetiepie, babyboo, cupcake, sweetiekins, etc? I can&amp;amp;#8217;t help it. I gag dramatically and loudly&amp;amp;#8212;it&amp;amp;#8217;s a reflex. How about when someone whom you don&amp;amp;#8217;t know all that well calls you &amp;amp;#8220;honey&amp;amp;#8221; because they have forgotten your name or because they are trying to appear superior? The worst. So Smitten readers, what do you think? A somewhat rhetorical question: am I a strange breed of human? No, seriously, I&amp;amp;#8217;m curious&amp;amp;#133; is there anyone out there like me? Or are all of you someone&amp;amp;#8217;s babycakes? More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;amp;#8217;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow Smitten on Twitter. Photo: Jupiter Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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