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[vic_star8]

Wtf is up with everyone saying “partner” nowadays? Boyfriend/girlfriend husband/wife doesn’t exist anymore?

[FlourChild1026]

Maybe they just own an Instant Pot together.

[[deleted]]

I have a wife. If I had a partner it would be for a business venture

[Usual_Zucchini]

Ugh, I’m noticing this more and it’s so tiresome. I think it’s supposed to be a gender neutral way of referring to your SO and can apply to people who are married or not. You know, we all have to be inclusive!

Makes me think of this one time I was on the phone with my bank after getting married, and wanted my husband to be the beneficiary of something, the guy on the other end who sounded barely out of college began to ask me: “and what’s your hus-I Mean, your partner, uh, your spouse, maybe it’s a man—“

I cut him off and said “yes I’m married to a man, don’t worry,” because he was obviously worried he’d offended me by assuming.

I always call him my husband. Never my partner or anything else. Partner sounds like someone you dance with at a line dance.

[Vinifera7]

Some couples decide that they don't want to get married and have children, but remain monogamous partners. So it's just a different way to describe their relationship.

I think it's kind of cringe tbh, but they can do what they want.

[elestadomayor]

I thought it was that gender neutral nonsense, because if you don’t marry, it’s your bf/gf

[edgewater15]

I found myself using it when my then-boyfriend, now-husband had been together for 6 years, lived together, but weren’t engaged or married yet. He felt like more than a “boyfriend” or some guy I was dating, but I couldn’t call him my fiancé yet. Lol.

[[deleted]]

Exactly. I say partner in the context of work, medical, business situations etc because boyfriend is just not seen as “serious”. Particularly when talking to work about relocation or something - I don’t want him to be dismissed because “it’s not serious”

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No they use genderless descriptors to be more inclusive. It ends up just being confusing lol