Significant other*

    • Significant other*

      Significant other.?
      How do you guys feel about that word?

      I personally dislike this term, alot.
      I mean, Iknow it may sound really immature for disliking such a simple term, but whatever, I do.

      It just strikes me as ignorance. I mean, we are the same as straight couples. We don't call people in interracial marriages/relationships anything different than we do two people of the same race getting married.
      So why do some people use this term for gays?
      I wouldn't want someone to call my HUSBAND my significant other. Because he would be my HUSBAND.
      Do you get what I'm saying?
      How do you feel about this?
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    • Re: Significant other*

      Well, it dosent really bother me, since I've heard it used in alot of relationships, it's been used just as a polite way to ask if a persons married or seeing someone new since they last saw them.
      If it was a term that people only used about gay couples, it might bother me but where I am, it's used in many relationships.
    • Re: Significant other*

      Oh? Haha I've just never heard it used for straight couples.
      Mah bad, I guess.
      Partner works too, but like, I've heard that for straight couples as well.
      It just seems, more often than not, whenever I hear these terms, it usually pretains to gay people.
      :S
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