Calling your wife your boyfriend's name is even worse.

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That's just wrong :D!

OH OH OH, that's living dangerously LOL

Not the thread I was looking for but yes. My whole family does this. No matter what anyone calls me I just go with it. Correcting them went out the window a long time ago.

Even though my name is Craig (parents watching Peter Gunn and saw Craig Stevens) it wasn't a very popular name growing up in the 60's-70's.

But for some reason since Kindergarten everyone who first met me would call me Chris. I'd correct them and they'd say "Well, you look like a Chris".

So now I pretty much answer to anything.

So do I.

At the pet shop the loyalty account is under the name Denise. The cute young pet shop girls look at me and say "Denise???". I say to them "What were my parents thinking calling me Denise. It was hell going through high school being called Denise." One particularly gorgeous one said to me "I think it's a perfectly nice name for you, Denise."

I said to the young guy there "It's my cross dressing name." And he said to me "Mine's Tyler."

Please tell me she doesn't call out "Norm".

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My wife calls me the cat's name. I think it's because neither one of us listen to her.

I'm Steve, but over the years, it's not uncommon for me to get called Scott or Chris, but only those two.

We won't even get into pronunciation of my last name. All sorts of letters get added or occasionally subtracted. I think people see it, don't have a pre-existing notion in their head, and try to fit it into something pre-existing (which is never going to happen unless you're a German mathematics teacher/professor, I think.

^^^^ I doubt I even pronounce Steve properly .... much less your last name :D.

Is it 2 or 3 syllables ..... in my head it's Mas-raum ... never even considered it might be 3!

Yah, I kind of randomize names from time to time. I also, in my mind, rename people. My doc at work for a year or so was "Alice", I even came out and told her that it should be "April". She's in her mid-late 50s and I'm sure there were more Alices than Aprils back then - but regardless. She's "April".

I'm changing jobs and meeting many new people who seem very concerned that they use the correct name for me. I don't care if it's "Mike", "Michael" or "hey you...". I've been called far worse. ;)

My grandmother had two daughters, and between them they had three daughters and one son. As the only male grandchild, I always got called my own name, but between my mom, aunt, sister, and cousins, any of them might be called by any of their names.

My wife has two daughters, Aja and Polly. Aja's daughter's name is Riley. She had a dog for 19 years names Susie. She calls the girls all 4 names and occasionally calls me Mark, her ex of 20 years. I've been a bit better. Only called her my exes name maybe once :-) I'm Jerry, my Dad had a brother named Larry. Guess what I got called half the time.

My mom frequently got flustered with the kids when we were growing up, she cycled through all of our names till she got to the right one. The culprit was usually my youngest sister, so she went through the whole list. She did it often enough that our cockatoo picked it up and would chime in.

The funny part was that the cockatoo had an accent. Years before, when we lived in Singapore, we had a Chinese maid living with with us. And she could only pronounce approximations of our names and so when she called us to dinner, by yelling out each name in turn, the cockatoo first learned the phrase there. So when he said it, it was using her mispronunciations of our names.

So when my mom did it years later, he would chime in with his Chinese interpretation and he wouldn’t quit. Once he got started it was hard to shut him up.

This is hilarious. Sounds like comedy-sketch material.

Did I forget to mention that the cockatoo did not have any feathers?

youngest's name is Lilly and doggo's name is Dolly

I can't keep them straight when agitated by eithers misbehavior

My mother-in-law, RIP, had one name for everyone in the family - she'd just string together the names of all the kids into one general-purpose appelation. I thought that was funny, until my wife started doing it - just occasionally, but it's starting.

Ok, confession time.

I have, in my life:

1. Forgotten my wife's name while introducing her at a public gathering
2. Used my ex-wife's name when addressing my wife
3. Called my wife by her best friend's name
4. Forgotten my own name

I have, albeit with some material wounds to my ego and my gentleman parts, survived all of these misadventures.

I attribute it to the male inability to deal with even one train of non-sexual thought at a time, much less multitasking.

D.