So, my girlfriend and I just got a domestic partnership. Trouble is, now we don't know what to call ourselves. Girlfriend doesn't sound serious, partner sounds like a business associate, wife sounds too girly (ah, the difficulties of a butch-butch couple) and reminds us too much of the tradition of female oppression that marriage has been, significant other is just too long and politically correct, spouse sounds so... government form-ish... lover doesn't sound respectable and is too sexual for casual conversation... what else is there?!
2007-01-30 09:04:53 · 5 answers · asked by scruffy 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
You could say mate!
Haha now I sound Australian.
2007-02-01 19:11:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not so butch, but my "partner" is trans, and so I've found that.... Partner sounds like business, but I also don't want to include gender sometimes depending on who i'm talking to.
I like to just say "my other half". He really is my other half!
2007-01-30 18:46:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
how about my equal half or better half if you are feeling generous
but how about your partner when you and she kick my nuts off for some $$$!!
2007-01-30 19:14:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
life-partner
life-mate
....you've shot down most of the others.
2007-01-30 21:19:17 · answer #4 · answered by IndyT- For Da Ben Dan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
wusband and hife...lol. something like my other half, or my life love
2007-01-31 04:18:59 · answer #5 · answered by jci2005 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋