My husband calls me a lot of pet names. A couple, which I cannot remember, I’m pretty sure I don’t like, but I don’t know what they mean. Lol. When he says them, and I ask what they mean, he tells me to ask his mom. I learned my lesson not to ask his mom early in my marriage, it’s a set up!
I call him “baby” all the time with a slang word in Spanish. He calls me the same. If it were in English I don’t think I’d like it, but in Spanish it’s fine.
I don’t like being called Sweetie. My dad used to use that term when I was little, and it’s not because of that, I just never felt comfortable with that term. I remember asking my dad not to call me Sweetie, and he did stop. I was probably around 11 or 12 at the time when I asked him to stop.