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Reply to "When did people start calling their boyfriend/girlfriend their partner?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Partner to me implies a serious relationship. [b]When I hear "partner", I think mortgage together, kids together -- longtime co-mingling of assets of all kinds. [/b] And I've been hearing this for decades. I also lived in NYC, and it was very common to hear the term used in the gay communities. Personally, I stopped saying "boyfriend" when I stopped going out with boys. Most of the actual adults that I know say "friend" -- and we all know what that means. [/quote] That's what I used to think too. But while some people use it to refer to someone they've been married to or living with for decades, others use it to refer to someone they started dating last month and whom they hopefully don't live with. Apparently there is a whole range of relationships it can represent, which doesn't make it the most useful term if you want to convey your relationship status as established and committed.[/quote]
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