NAMES.....

Catfancy · ‎08-08-2013

Do you use your "given" name, or do you have a "pet" name that you are called?

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Stormygirl · ‎08-01-2015

My face turns red when I think of some of the past pet names. DH used to call me "petunia" and it had a certain cringe factor LOOOOOOL. "Cleo" at work due to the long black hair I suppose, others I wont mention here..oh and Stormy LOL

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

I wouldn't call it a pet name, but I do go by my nickname. My given name is not complex but people have trouble pronouncing it. Here in New Mexico they try to pronounce it as they would in Spanish and it just doesn't work.

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Catfancy · ‎08-08-2013

I understand, I've been called a few names that I can't repeat here!

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deepwaterdotter · ‎03-09-2010

Given name. I think my parents gave me a pretty name.

jaxs mom · ‎04-18-2012

I don't have a nickname.

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Suziepeach · ‎03-10-2010

My BIL and husband use a nickname for me but I'd rather keep it private.

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Stormygirl · ‎08-01-2015

@Catfancy Just a cute little antedote: When I was fostered the papers on my information got mixed up with another baby and my fosters were told my name was incorrectly "Bernice" and Nicknamed aka "Bunny" I was so glad they discovered the oops as I am very far from any "Bunny" and my fosters were going to change my name if that were the case. Whew a tomboy named "Bunny" would have given me a real complex LOL (and an attitude hehehehe j/k)

Lapdog · ‎12-18-2012

Life id very funny. My given name was very common, my parents went to a movie and named me after an actress because they liked her name.

I have struggled my entire life to be called by my given name. only my friends and family call me by my given name.

My parents were distressed that no one would call me by my given name. They even named my siblings so that their names could not be hacked.

What is also odd, is that about 10 years ago my nickname was shortened to one sylable by everyone. It happened overnight. One day I went to work and my name had been changed. Too funny!

I am used to it but I always never understood the why?

I also have one of those faces that people ask me if I am so and so because I look just like someone else:-)

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