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07-19-2023, 04:45 PM | #48 |
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This, 100% - I'll use their terms if they refer to partner as a girlfriend, but calling somebody older than about 25 a 'girl/boy' just seems inappropriate (unless they are a resident, then they are 'kids').
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07-19-2023, 05:43 PM | #49 | |
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Relationships sometimes become marriages. The cockamamie society we live in now results in a lot of divorces, frequently funneling people into "partnerships" for people who don't want to be legally obligated for other people's bad behavior. Should they just have broken up instead of staying in a relationship where they don't have trust? Sure. But it isn't always that easy. Life is complicated. Nothing of this is simple. Shawn |
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07-19-2023, 06:29 PM | #50 |
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I don't have a prb, ppl can call themselves whatever. I notice that here in Quebec, many couples don't officially get married, so that term applies and is kinda more accurate, but then again they also refer to each other as 'husband/wife', so, whatevs.
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07-19-2023, 07:36 PM | #53 |
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Salt Bae is so passé now.
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The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation...It's bullsh*t. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal...Now you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you buddy?
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07-19-2023, 08:36 PM | #56 |
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I have no issue with folks using the term "partner" when I lived in the UK for a few years it seemed everyone used the term partner, young and old...It's not as commonly used in the US but certainly growing in popularity.
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07-19-2023, 09:15 PM | #57 |
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…are you referring to my special lady friend?
Partner is a way to label another couples relationship correctly if they are super liberal. |
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07-19-2023, 10:58 PM | #58 |
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We went to an airshow this past weekend and heard it a few times, so thats what sparked my question.
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I knew someone who referred to his live-in girlfriend as his attendant. She thought that it was cute, despite being over age 40. I thought that it was degrading, and borderline domestic abuse.....
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My wife is 5 months older than me, so when her birthday arrives I call her "my old lady" until my birthday (an idea I got from Sons or Anarchy). She finds the reactions from other people to be quite amusing when I say it in front of someone else in our PC world.
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I do feel like partner is a cumbersome term though. It's so generic. Business partner? Partner in crime? I just don't know of any better word without overcomplicating it, because she's also not my wife...or anyone else's. |
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It was so puzzling when ppl started calling both fe/male thespians as 'actors', as if the word 'actress' was demeaning? Insanity.
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There is no need for you to be sorry about not wanting to use it, nobody is asking you to and it isn't a term that fits your situation as you are married.
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i also hear older (60 yr+) people use the word "companion". i always thought "significant other" was odd and unwieldy. regardless, put me in the camp of calling yourself WETFUW
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Seems like you are the one that is offended because they aren't using the terms you prefer.
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