What do you call your "significant other"?

[marzipanmermaid]

Aw... My pet names are so average compared to everyone else's, lol. I feel like I'm lacking in the colorful pet name department.
I usually just call him Ty, ugly (in a loving way, lol), little one, little zebra. I have one other but is a bit...inappropriate to share especially how/when it's used in context. His pet names are funnier for me: T-rex (my arms are short), Chernobyl, Glow Stick, ugly, f*****, Kel, little bunny.

 

[KCourtnee]

Bae

 

[Hana-Nezumi]

If I'm talking about him to someone else I'll say "my boyfriend" or his name if it's someone who knows him. In writing I'll sometimes refer to him as "my lover".

I don't have any cute name that I address him by though, and usually I never call him by name either. We live together and we're always alone, just the two of us, so whenever I speak, he knows that he is the one whom I'm talking to and I don't say his name or any nickname at all. So even after 3 and a half years I've never gotten used to calling him by his name. When we are around more people, and I do have to call him by name so that he knows he is the person I'm addressing, it feels very strange. And then I think about how I'm uncomfortable saying the name of the one person I'm closest too, and I feel even more strange. I'll even go out of my way to avoid it, by doing things like nudging him and saying "hey" or "listen!" to get his attention because I just don't have any word I'm used to addressing him by.