PacificPlain Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 Long story short: I have an ex who things are pretty civil/friendly with, he's seeing someone now, almost 2 years after we stopped seeing each other. The other night I saw him at a group social event, and he came over to say hi, and was sitting and chit chatting with me (meanwhile, the girl he's dating was running around doing other things/visiting with other people in the same room). He was recounting a story about something to me, and he pointed across the room at her, and proceeded to call her MY NAME. To me. He immediately realized what he'd done and his eyes got big and he stopped. I just kind of laughed. I asked how many times that's happened before. He said quote, "Only once before, but she wasn't really that mad about it." Now i'm kind of curious. People of the forum. What does it mean when someone freudian slips an ex's name and calls their partner that name instead? Is it completely subconscious? A jumbling of letters? He has other exes. He's only called her by my name, however.
d0nnivain Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 He was looking at you & talking to you. It was a slip of the tongue like a parent calling a kid by a sibling's name. It doesn't mean anything. Stop fretting 5
trustyourself Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 Many years ago, I was having a discussion with a girl I was seeing. We were talking about her best friend and immediately after the conversation, we were getting frisky and I accidentally called her by her best friends name! She got so mad, but it was literally an unconcious slip because we had just been talking about her. Didn't matter. She broke up with me.
RecentChange Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 Yep it's a slip because he was talking to you. If he called it out in the heat of passion after months of not speaking to you that would be one thing.... I'll jumbled names of my coworkers, it doesn't mean I wish Tom was Justin 3
stillafool Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 I've been married to my current husband 25 years and still sometimes accidentally call him my ex husband's name. We both laugh as he's called me his ex wife's name as well. My mother has been deceased for 24 years and my Dad still accidentally calls his wife her name. It means absolutely nothing. 1
GunslingerRoland Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 I wouldn't think much about it, since you were there, getting the names mixed up is a pretty natural thing our brain does.
Author PacificPlain Posted August 30, 2017 Author Posted August 30, 2017 I don't think so much of him calling her me, to me, but he then said he's done it apparently at another unrelated time, too, when I wasn't even around. Just struck me as odd.
Gaeta Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 It means nothing. My ex-h remarried and for 10 year till the day he died he accidently called her by my name. When I am mad at my dog I call him by my boss's name lol
preraph Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 Sometimes something a person says or does can remind me of an old bf enough to confuse me for a moment.
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