When my Dad was recovering from cancer surgery, and I looked at him lying there...I told him I loved him. He responded by saying "I love you too, sweetheart".
For those of you born in another age, probably recent, you might have never heard this type of exchange.
In fact, I remember calling one of my kids "sweetheart", and they really took offense.
I guess it's been used in a derogatory way too many times, to mean what it actually does. I tried to explain...but I'm not sure it went very far.
It's not just a romantic, or sarcastic term. It actually does also say it can be "...used as a term of endearment or affectionate form of address."
I bring it up because Marina and I were at a restaurant recently where a big burly Dad called his son "sweetheart".
It just reminded me of my Dad.
For those of you born in another age, probably recent, you might have never heard this type of exchange.
In fact, I remember calling one of my kids "sweetheart", and they really took offense.
I guess it's been used in a derogatory way too many times, to mean what it actually does. I tried to explain...but I'm not sure it went very far.
It's not just a romantic, or sarcastic term. It actually does also say it can be "...used as a term of endearment or affectionate form of address."
I bring it up because Marina and I were at a restaurant recently where a big burly Dad called his son "sweetheart".
It just reminded me of my Dad.
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