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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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Okay, but the vast majority of couples in middle age are married. The fact that you had to use your one friend as an example proves it is very much the exception to just be cohabitating lifelong unmarrieds, rather than simply husband and wife.

It may be normal, but not common.

Are you really trying to argue that if you were, say, hanging around a post-season U8 soccer bbq and chatting with a fellow mom, that your first assumption is that she and her children’s father are unwed, for life, by mutual choice? [/quote]

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