• pixxelkick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    I like to use partner even though I’m in a hetero relationship just cuz it sounds better.

    Also just to normalize it.

    Calling my fiance my partner makes me feel like we are a pair of ranch hands in the wild west, instead of two introverted weebs :3

    • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Same. I say my partner, because also girlfriend sounds too casual for what we have, but we aren’t married. It’s just very useful and gender neutral term.

      • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Sounds too casual

        My partner and I just had this conversation recently. We don’t want to get married because we don’t see a point in bringing bureaucracy into our relationship. But we’ve been through too much to just be “dating” still. So, they’re my partner

  • Yaarmehearty@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    I use it in a heterosexual relationship because it sounds weird to call my partner of 20 years my girlfriend when we are both 40. We just aren’t married, so if I said wife people would question why I don’t wear a ring.

    Though if people thought I was gay, who gives a fuck? It’s current year after all.

  • AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    I’m not gay, but I’ve been saying my partner for years. Saying girlfriend felt like it diminished the seriousness of the relationship. We’ve been together 15 years. She is my soul-bond.

    I couldn’t say wife because we only got married the other day. Partner feels like it implies a more serious connection than girlfriend, at least to me