"Let me introduce you to my partner...."

eesh, that sounds so weird.

I know it's the term used now for your 'significant other'.... but it just sounds so bizarre to me. I keep thinking it's like your business parnter. But it's not.... it's your unmarried-other, your gay lover, and now it's being used to refer to your common-law spouse and even boyfried/girlfriend (hetero) are using it...

It just has never sounded right. Probably just a weird quirk that I have. I just think that if someone is your boyfriend, then call him that. If someone's your girlfriend, call her that. Even the term "life partner" sounds better to me than just "partner".

..... I'll probably get a bit of slack, so please don't knock me.... I don't mean to offend, it just sounds a little odd to me...

 

Everyone thought I was a lesbian when I would talk about my "partner"...LOL

It's just what we grew up with culturally. I like the term better because bf/gf sounds so juvenile to me...like something a teenager might say...while partner expresses what I really want in a person...a PARTNER...not a friend of the opposite sex.

 

you can call them your live-in-lover. i don't like the use of "partner" either. it's so businesslike to me. sounds cold and papery. at least say "life partner."

 

yeah, i can dig it - i prefer terms like "lover", "lover man" or "sweet lovin daddy" - "partner" does seem so sterile and more like a business arrangement

lol, i was thinking about starting a thread that asked what everyone called their "significant other"........."lover" is such a great term - makes me feel like Mata Hari or somethin and always keeps em guessing!

 

Yeah, when I hear the term "partner", it puts me in the mind of business partner too.

 

Yeah, I live in a kind of conservative area where "partner" is usually assumed to mean homosexual. I use the term "boyfriend" to describe my...boyfriend, but I agree that it sounds juvenile. I wish there was a better word. Usually I just say "This is John" and from the way we treat each other people understand that we're a couple.

 

i use boyfriend or girlfriend. whatever, parnter is what some peopel choose but it just sounds silly to me. i dont really find boyfriend or girlfreind juveinle or whatever though

 

I know several people who just call their bf/gf their husband or wife, even though they are not married.

I don't like "partner" either.

 

I suppose 'life partner' is ok - it separates from thinking 'business partner' when just saying 'partner'.... or 'significant other' or 'better half' or whatever.... lots of terms to use ... I too thought using 'boyfriend' and 'girlfriend' at times sounds juvenile, and also if you're living together or whatnot... I dunno...

 

I actually like the fact that saying girlfriend/boyfriend sounds juvenile. there's something really sweet and poignant about it, for me. it's probably one of my failings and speaks volumes about my problems in relationships, but being in love or infatuated with someone always makes me feel like less of an adult (though hopefully not immature).

 

agreed, partner sounds like a bizness deal in the works! Lover raises a few eyebrows sometimes, as it implies someone is getting some on the side. Bf/Gf does sound like a Happy Days episode, so its really tough to find something that describes a live in relationship that isnt marriage.

But theres worse to be called, nothing cracks me up more than the look a guy gets when he introduces his "ol lady"!

 

all it is anyway is a contract for a mutual interest.

 

Wait! What about ball and chain???

LOL

 

The local radio DJ refers to his kids as his "stress factors"

How about consort or better half?

 

i preffer this heres my bitch jonny. say hello to the ladies jonny oh hey hi. hey waiter? get me sum rum doubles k?

 

peoples parents like me. dunno. im not polite i cuss n tell dirty jokes. there friends ussually like me too. im starting to think everybodys wierd. or not as i expected. then again ive never had an uptight girlfriend. hey why is girl bad? juvenile is a criminal right? i started early bein an adult n shit. far as i can tell its all mannerisms.emotions havent changed n needs differ by 1 degree sex. sex isnt really that altering.siblings friends n parents are all intimate. if anything its sum assumption that intimacy should be reduced. adults are less tough than kids n have less intimacy. sounds lose lose.being tough is from sumthing. i still have it. s why people trust me even tho i do stupid shit n say stupid shit.the only people who dont trust me dont trust there own judgement.junkies well far gone predator types. cannibals. overanxious fear driven folks. were all fear driven. at sum point folks figure out yer a twitchy fucker but hey unless yer steppin on my neck ill get over it.fuck if i know i liked sayin it.

 

um, no offense, but wtf does this have to do with this thread? I'm lost...

 

No it just means childish.

 

My Insignificant other

Bullet-Proof Bitch

Partner in time

Two-term incumbent

President of my fan club





Hotwater

 

For along time, I hated saying the word 'partner' but didn't like to other options. I think over time, it became more natural. I tend to say partner or better half and that wins brownie points ;-) Part of it, to me, is how people say it. If it's said hestitantly people take it differently from when it's said with a loving tone. Thankfully, we have been together long enough that it's evident that we are together. That's really cool.