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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a ridiculous word to describe a person with whom one is in a romantic relationship;  yet another attempt by infantilized progressives to rewrite the language to their own self-serving means.

Whenever someone uses that term, I ask how long they've been working together.[/quote]
Language evolves, unlike you. [/quote]
“Partner” floating around on its own is an inherently meaningless term, though. John and Jane could be business partners, dance partners, tennis partners, figure skating partners, spades partners, and so on. AAs in some parts of the country call their friends their partner too. Even the gays long qualified it as “life partner”.

Utterly vague and vapid language for people too lacking in courage to call a thing by its name. You feel childish for calling a 50 year old man your boyfriend? It’s because the whole premise is childish on its face! [/quote]

But it’s not floating around on its own, there is this thing called “context.” [/quote]
“My husband and I are looking for a new place.”

“The father of my children and I are looking for a new place.”

“My roomate and I are looking for a new place.”

“My boyfriend and I are looking for a new place.”

“My partner and I are looking for a new place.”

Which one of these five statements provides the least information? You [not you specifically] impose making an assumption of your own weird self-constructed universe on the audience rather than being precise in language. Words mean things. How can partner simultaneously mean “person who is my life partner of many years,” “person who is my boyfriend but we are of an age where it sounds silly,” and “person whose relationship with me could be of any nature/duration but I would rather not divulge out of privacy” at the same time and we’re all just supposed to emotionally labor over which one it is by context? In a way, that is quite narcissistic.
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NP. What a truly bizarre comment.[/quote]
And what a truly useless, insipid comment. Thanks for adding nothing of value to the conversation.[/quote]

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