use of the word "partner"

Moses said:
I don't use it, but it's not as though they're actually saying the other person's better than them... :o
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Well no, but it still grates on me, especially as those that do (that I've met in real life) appear to be the ones seeing"princesses" rather than normal women.
 
Surely its always best to refer to someone by their given or preferred name. Their relational status is irrelevant but if asked and you wish to answer then friend is sufficient in most respects.
 
The woman I have been with for 10 years and been living with for 5 is not just my "friend" though is she?
 
kwerk said:
I know that girlfriend/boyfriend sounds ridiculous when you are in your 40s/50s
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It may sound ridiculous to a young pup like you, to somebody over 40, like myself, I see nothing wrong with it.

My Girlfriend is just that, my girlfriend! :confused:

Weirdo! :p
 
kwerk said:
I know that girlfriend/boyfriend sounds ridiculous when you are in your 40s/50s, but "partner" just sounds like you're a gay.

There must be a better word to use surely?
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other half, the missus, ball n' chain, the boss

Plenty of other terms you can use if you unduly worry about people thinking you might be gay.
 
robgmun said:
No, it means you're not proud of being hetrosexual, why can't you be in the same way a gay man can be proud of being homosexual?

Women are such retards most of the time i swear :rolleyes:
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Because people say being homosexual is wrong/bad/unnatural, nobody says that about being hetro. So despite all of that, they're saying "f you, I'm proud to be who I am".

Are you seriously proud to be hetro?

Men are such retards most of the time i swear :rolleyes:
 
darkgen said:
And? Is she still not a friend? The best and closest of friends?
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Yes. But I have lots of friends, and I don't live with or have sex with them, neither do I share a mortgage with them or any of my household bills. There is a need to differentiate.
 
I think people should just say womanfriend or manfriend when they get old enough that boy/girl doesn't sound right.
 
steve-h said:
Because people say being homosexual is wrong/bad/unnatural, nobody says that about being hetro. So despite all of that, they're saying "f you, I'm proud to be who I am".

Are you seriously proud to be hetro?

Men are such retards most of the time i swear :rolleyes:
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Of course I'm proud to be hetero! What a stupid question to ask! :rolleyes: Women in the last 50 years have tried to emasculate men at every opportunely, i am a man like it or not and if they don't they can just get on their collective knees and suck it TBH.

Past GF's have tried to turn me into a doormat and failed, they think they can nag and boss me around as well and to be honest its other mens fault for putting their pussies on the pedestals. Thinking they can get away with crazy behavior. They get a quick kick to the kerb for their troubles, and then they always come begging afterwards because they didn't know they were dealing with someone who wasn't going to accept any form of emasculation.

Finally with someone who understands me and she is a real woman who not only respects me but respects herself.

This should make intersting reading on the problem with womens ego's in todays age: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...pidemic-more-inflated-sense-fabulousness.html
 
robgmun said:
Of course I'm proud to be hetero! What a stupid question to ask! :rolleyes: Women in the last 50 years have tried to emasculate men at every opportunely, i am a man like it or not and if they don't they can just get on their collective knees and suck it TBH.

Past GF's have tried to turn me into a doormat and failed, they think they can nag and boss me around as well and to be honest its other mens fault for putting their pussies on the pedestals. Thinking they can get away with crazy behavior. They get a quick kick to the kerb for their troubles, and then they always come begging afterwards because they didn't know they were dealing with someone who wasn't going to accept any form of emasculation.

Finally with someone who understands me and she is a real woman who not only respects me but respects herself.

This should make intersting reading on the problem with womens ego's in todays age: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...pidemic-more-inflated-sense-fabulousness.html
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Wow...

I think you need to look for a different type of woman. Or you attract the wrong sort anyway. I've never had any problems in that way with girls I've dated and I'm sure most others haven't.

I guess it's a bit like the women that seem to go from abusive male to abusive male for no apparent reason!
 
Well if you read it properly you would have noticed that i have found the right woman. It was only really when i stopped dating white English women that i realised women from other cultures don't have rampant egos like the ones here
 
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campbell said:
I've just called the police. You're a homophobic bean.
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I've just called the police on YOU for implying there's something wrong with gays. I suppose "gay" is a slur word to you because you hate them so much, but to me gays are pretty much the same as humans.
 
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