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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish we could all just agree to say partner. Not even for PC reasons, although that matters. Boyfriend/girlfriend sounds too HS. Husband/wife sounds too old-fashioned. Also, it is becoming more and more common for people to be lifelong partners without getting married. I have a friend who bought and remodeled a house with her partner. They live like a married couple in all aspects of life, but they will never get married. This is common, so yeah, I think we are at a point where we should not assume spouse.

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If people don't want to get married, for whatever reason, I support that.

But it's weird to expect people who are married to refrain from using words like husband/wife/spouse. They got married. That's what they are. They may use any of those terms if they want. They can also say partner, but they aren't required to use that term.

It's not some attack on people who CHOSE not to get married to use a word like spouse. I am not required to say partner so that unmarried people can feel like our relationships are the same. They aren't the same. I am married and they are not married. I don't judge them for it and I assume they have their reasons, but I went through the trouble of legally getting married to my spouse and I'm not going to hide that in order to maintain some weird fiction like getting married doesn't matter. It does matter, to me. That's why I did it.[/quote]

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