To each their own, SD...
I think that is just where you are (and where you will always be with your t). I suppose, it may have bothered me a year ago. However, I have come to trust T especially after the last couple of months of talking about the hard stuff. So, I think he says stuff like that either b/c he is used to it (he has a teenage daughter) or b/c it truly is a term of endearment. Heck, the closer I come to 30 (I know, I know, I am not old yet).. the more I would like young attatched to my name.