My girlfriend keeps calling me cute? .. and "cookie"? Does this mean she's not attracted to me physically/ considers me soft and unmanly?

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure why but recently she's taken to calling me cute a lot and also started to call me cookie, it makes me feel neutered and unmanly?

[adastra]

Not necessarily. I call guys "pretty" all the time but that doesn't mean that I think they're not manly. Usually if I call people pretty it means that I hold them in the highest standard.

[wintergirl86]

I think you're over thinking it. It's just a pet name. I call my boyfriend cute and I still think he is hot.

[RestlessYouth_]

Lol they're just pet names, sound like someone needs to work on their self esteem.

[Asker]

Well generally i have good self esteem, but i do really care what my girlfriend thinks

[SomethingWicked]

Cookies are sweet, she's calling you sweetie in a 'wacky' way.

[Asker]

... because small children aren't also called sweetie? haha :/

[SomethingWicked]

I call my boyfriend sweetie. I also call all small children sweetie. It saves me from remembering peoples names.

[Asker]

of course! i mean who needs to actually know their boyfriends name after all?

[SomethingWicked]

I meant the small children's, but yeah, who needs to know that. Psh.

[KleinTeef]

She's given you a petname...

My GF calls me 'boo' ... does that make me less manly? NO.

[Asker]

Well that would just have me bemused personally, where did boo come from?

[KleinTeef]

Sorry... I meant I call my GF 'boo', she calls me 'bub' ...

I don't know how it started

[Klaatu51]

she wants to remove you like a cookie from a browser

[Asker]

... you... what? come again? in English please :S

[SomethingWicked]

You delete cookies on your browser.

[Asker]

@SomethingWicked... yes but what does that mean exactly? You mean she wants to dump my ass?

[SomethingWicked]

Well, yeah, but @Klaatu51 is obviously joking. It was a good joke.

[Findesemana]

i doubt they're slights, they're intended as terms of affection...

[Asker]

... but it's the same things you'd say out of affection to a newborn child?

[Findesemana]

and? look, you got plenty of responses saying the same thing... what more do you want?

[yaddayaddayadda02]

They're just pet names. Don't over think it.

[Xwtxx]

She likes you.

[Asker]

Well i'd assume that much, but it's just in what capacity

[Xwtxx]

You need to take the next step.