How your significant others name is saved in your phone contacts speaks volumes about your relationship

Are you calling “Boobear” or “John Hinge”? Whether it be an endearing — and possibly embarrassing — nickname or their full legal name, your partner’s contact name in your phone gives insight into your relationship.According to relationship experts, here’s what the moniker could mean.

“Since the name on our phone is a visual symbol of our partner, and a reminder of our relationship with them, using personal jokes or nicknames can reflect a deeper or more intimate connection,” Eloise Skinner, a psychotherapist, told The Independent.“If our partner uses our full name just like they would for any other contact, we might feel they don’t attribute additional value to our communication,” Skinner said.

However, she warns that “this may not be true” for all couples.Some practical people save all their contacts by their legal name — and it can be a huge help in emergencies.Laura learned that lesson the hard way.

The communications manager was riding her bike one day when she fell and broke her arm.A group of strangers who witnessed the incident rushed to her aid and quickly grabbed her phone to call her emergency contact.The issue was that she had borrowed her husband’s phone to use his Apple Music account and didn’t know what name her spouse had used for her on his phone.“I wasn’t listed under my name, so I proceeded to list all the names I could be saved under, all while I was in agony on the floor,” she recounted to The Independent.

She rattled off everything she could think of, including “Snugglef–k.”That was when she “heard the chuckles.” In the end, she learned that she was simply saved as “My Girl” — a sweet fact she only learned after breaking a bone and being publicly embarrassed.While it might not always be so dramatic, your partner’s contact name could be less secretive than you think.“Most of the time, these details are fairly private to us,” registered therapist Georgina Sturmer explained to The ...