Calling your loved one by a nickname is fun. But when is the right time to do so? Mumbai couples share with DNA their experiences.
When two people are in love, everything seems so sweet. Even the funny nicknames couples call each other by. Many lovers often invent special names for their companions as a gesture to show how much they love them. And they often used nicknames like ‘baby’, ‘sweetu’, ‘babu’, ‘chikoo’ and others. But it’s a crucial
moment when these nicknames come into being.
According to Meetu Singh Rai, PR professional, it’s the comfort level with a person which determines the devising of a nick. “When you share closeness with a person is when you can call them with nicknames. But it totally depends on what kind of chemistry you develop with any person. There are times when you get along with somebody in a matter of a day’s time. And at other times it takes years to even know the person.”
Journalist Manyata Banerjee’s boyfriend calls her ‘Billy’ Banerjee whenever he wants to make up for his mistake. “Whenever we have fought, he tries to please me by calling me Billy.
Subconsciously it’s his way of letting me know that he loves me and is willing to admit that he went wrong somewhere. I like this nick because it reassures me that he loves me,” she says.
The first time Aastha Sharma, marketing professional, wanted to be pampered by her new boyfriend, she invented a nickname for him. “Nicknames are individualised and speak of the personality of the one nicknamed. At times people do something to earn a nick or you just have to be creative to make one to pull their leg. Sometimes my boyfriend doesn’t get my silly jokes. So I started calling him dodo. And when I do that he loves me even more,” she smiles.
Inventing a nickname may also mean that you want to make an undeclared claim on your loved one, as no one else in the world can call them with the name you do. However, if people have not been able to crack the bond of closeness between them, then calling them with a nickname can be like a ‘too much too soon syndrome’.
It happened with Amit Jain, a businessman. He says, “A girl I had barely known started calling me jaanu on our second date. I was taken aback. It felt odd and very out of place. I wanted to run away because I could see she was not being herself and trying too hard to please me.”
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