Hun
There’s much I don’t like about modern marketing, though that’s an essay rather than a paragraph. Today’s grouch is against overuse of terms of endearment. Hun, lovely, darlings, babe, mate, sweetheart to list but a few. Although irksome to read, with the exception of mate, I do like hearing them. In Greece it’s Agape Mou or My Love. I’m more aloof. You have to be in my inner circle to be called darling. I’ve no idea what I’d call a lover anymore. Definitely not hun, it reminds me too much of the time-wasters from my tantric massage days.