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[quote=Anonymous]I would take the approach of being “helpful.” Tell him that you and other women noticed he uses “dear,” you and other women realize he probably means well but you don’t like it, you and other women prefer he use your names instead of a term of endearment, and it’s to his benefit to stop using terms of endearment because things have shifted in our culture. You could joke that “dear” is for grandmas to use and he’s not at the old-fogey stage yet! Make it less about “I don’t like it” (which gives him power) and more about “get with the times; you don’t want to seem out of date and/or sexist.”[/quote]
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