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re: Do straight young people use the term 'partner'?

Posted on 8/16/25 at 5:50 pm to
Posted by Jimmyboy
Member since May 2025
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Posted on 8/16/25 at 5:50 pm to
Not just young people. I met an old guy who referred to his girlfriend as partner and I thought it was weird. If you’re straight it makes you sound homo
Posted by CocomoLSU
Inside your dome.
Member since Feb 2004
155600 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 5:51 pm to
quote:

I thought only gay people used that term, but this kid was about 25.

Do you think gays have a minimum age or something?
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
73090 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 5:55 pm to
quote:

Do straight young people use the term 'partner'?
In the mean streets of the hardcore Square Dance game this happens.

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Posted by member12
Bob's Country Bunker
Member since May 2008
33085 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 5:57 pm to
I’ve been told that the term “spouse”, “wife” or “husband” is hetero normative and thus evil for some reason.
Posted by beaverfever
Arkansas
Member since Jan 2008
35471 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 5:58 pm to
A young, straight, conservative male never uses the term. The more of those qualifiers you remove, the more likely it is for a person to say it.
Posted by TT9
Seychelles
Member since Sep 2008
90766 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 6:10 pm to
That's a liberal term to help with all the queers. Still husband wife, boyfriend girlfriend here.
Posted by Smeg
Member since Aug 2018
14578 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 6:13 pm to
quote:

Do you think gays have a minimum age or something?


No, but I was thinking basically what these two posters said:
quote:

It’s a new effort for straight people who are “allies” to use a common word so when gays refer to their partner, it’s been normalized and doesn’t out them as gay

quote:

I’ve been told that the term “spouse”, “wife” or “husband” is hetero normative and thus evil for some reason.


Younger libs are nuts. I've never been told these things, but those are the types of thoughts I imagined a diseased mind might have.
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
7627 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 6:14 pm to
Anytime I hear partner, I think they are gay or liberal.
Posted by Keys Open Doors
In hiding with Tupac & XXXTentacion
Member since Dec 2008
32799 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 6:33 pm to
True, if a 56 year old guy has been dating a 54 year old woman for 3 months, what should he call her? I can see girlfriend referring to a woman in her mid-50s as a bit awkward.

But partner has strong connotations of being a try-hard ally.
Posted by CHGAR
Haile, LA
Member since Aug 2022
1256 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 6:36 pm to
I use Ol' Lady.
Posted by HeadCall
Member since Feb 2025
5715 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 6:36 pm to
Liberal white women do
Posted by UKWildcats
Lexington, KY
Member since Mar 2015
18901 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 6:41 pm to
The term partner is for English cigarettes.
Posted by dallastigers
Member since Dec 2003
9655 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 6:59 pm to
It is more of gay or British thing, but it does seem to be increasing with people wanting to fit in.

Posted by LordSaintly
Member since Dec 2005
42272 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 7:05 pm to
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he mentioned moving to the area to be with his 'partner' instead of girlfriend or wife.


It’s common for people who are unmarried but who are in serious long term relationships.

Posted by BrohemAlem11
Ratchet City, LA
Member since Oct 2014
13414 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 7:07 pm to
Yes and it confuses the frick out of me. I have a lot of 20 something year old providers and I have no idea who's gay and not.
Posted by ElJefe686
Houston
Member since Nov 2012
882 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 7:10 pm to
Posted by Victor R Franko
Member since Dec 2021
2360 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 7:14 pm to
"Ball and Chain" works for my woman.
Posted by danilo
Member since Nov 2008
24924 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 8:12 pm to
Domestic companion
Posted by DonJuanDaMiles
San Diego, CA
Member since Feb 2014
1305 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 8:23 pm to
quote:

I noticed this relationship didn’t last. Did you learn your lesson?


Yeah, I like hooking up with beautiful women. So, did she. You may want to try it.
Posted by Disco Ball
Denham Springs
Member since May 2025
842 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 8:32 pm to
I refer to my GF as the..
Raven haired Ruby lipped Wallet sucker

She doesn't like it.
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