One of my nearest and dearest male friends, calls me "doll". It never fails to bring a smile to my face!

But another of my male friends, has always referred to me as "darlin'". This too, I loved, until the day I overheard him say to another friend, "in Texas, when you can't remember their name, we call 'em darlin'!" Kinda took the sweetness out of it for me!