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I laughed and my partner ask why. I told her it’s some really nerdy humor. She was fine not hearing the joke, but I loosely explained it anyway. She humored me anyway. She’s a good woman.
I too think your partner is a good woman
I don't understand this partner thing.
Idk why, it just bothers me to hear someone say that instead of girl/boyfriend or Significant Other.
It just sounds so damn clinical.
That said, I also choose this person's partner.
Some languages - specifically Norwegian that I know of, don't have separate words for "boyfriend" and "girlfriend". In Norwegian we have the word "kjæreste" which can be directly translated to "dearest". To me it always feels a little weird to use "boyfriend" or "girlfriend", i guess the same could be true for other non-native english speakers.
Dearest is nice. I'm going to share that with my kjæreste.
Yep, sounds weird for me as well. We have separate words for boyfriend and girlfriend, but those have a kinda deeper meaning*, using "girl" and "friend" to describe someone who's really close to me is extremely weird. Like, the days she could be called a "girl" are in the past and calling her the same term as I call for example my work friends is just weird. So in my language I do use the equivalent of "boyfriend" and "girlfriend", but almost never in English.
* The word comes from a word for close friend and nowadays basically isn't used to mean "friend" anymore. I mean, it still does, but no one uses it that way. And even then it signifies some deeper connection between people compared to our more common word for "friend".