booboo berr

if you've been in a relationship you'd know that it's unavoidable (and inevitable) to earn/have matching terms of endearment* with your significant other. these names ranges from the oldies (darling) to new ones (b - baby's initial), from the conventional (honey) to the non-conventional (panget) or from the cute (apple pie) to the annoying (behh).

now the question i want to ask is this: is there an unwritten law wherein you're not supposed to recycle a term of endearment you've already bestowed upon an ex to use for your current partner?

*personally i'm not really fond of terms of endearment, or as i would like to call it pet names. which as the name implies should be reserved for pets. but yeah i'd let my girlfriend call me leche flan (leche when she's mad) just as long as i can have my videogame time. compromise pre.