“My Partnerâ€
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2014 4:15 pm
There is this guy that I play on a sports team with, anyways I quite like him; I think he’s a pretty cool guy. And I find our sports team is a quite interesting mix of all sorts of Expats. Some of them even hardcore Christians, and if you asked me a fews years ago if I would have any Christian friends that I’d sit down and have a beer and chat with, I’d be like; WTF mate?
Anyways, this other guy (not the Christian) he’s uber-liberal politically correct guy and always refers to his wife as “my partnerâ€.
When I asked him why he didn’t use the word “my wifeâ€, he said that it was derogatory, which I don’t agree with at all, because she could just as easily say “my husbandâ€, and isn’t the meaning in the feeling and not the word?
I also find his use of the word “partner†confusing as I always thought it was for gay people. And it could lead to some embarrassing social situations, let’s say if he was gay, and I had a gay friend and I wanted to send them out on a blind date together because maybe he mentioned it to me in passing “I just broke it off with my partner†and I interrupted that as meaning he was gay.
Do you refer to your wife/husband (gay or straight) as “wifeâ€, “husband†or “partnerâ€?
And does it really matter what “words†we use? (I for one think it does, only for the sole reason that it could lead to awkward social situations like my example above)
Anyways, this other guy (not the Christian) he’s uber-liberal politically correct guy and always refers to his wife as “my partnerâ€.
When I asked him why he didn’t use the word “my wifeâ€, he said that it was derogatory, which I don’t agree with at all, because she could just as easily say “my husbandâ€, and isn’t the meaning in the feeling and not the word?
I also find his use of the word “partner†confusing as I always thought it was for gay people. And it could lead to some embarrassing social situations, let’s say if he was gay, and I had a gay friend and I wanted to send them out on a blind date together because maybe he mentioned it to me in passing “I just broke it off with my partner†and I interrupted that as meaning he was gay.
Do you refer to your wife/husband (gay or straight) as “wifeâ€, “husband†or “partnerâ€?
And does it really matter what “words†we use? (I for one think it does, only for the sole reason that it could lead to awkward social situations like my example above)