Hows your partner??

Red Hand · 07-01-2007 11:58PM

"Partner" seems very dry and formal to me, personally. Very business-like. I'd much rather someone using the person's name or b/f/g/f.

Reminds me of Father Ted, "Song for Ireland".

Producer-He's my partner.

Ted-Your business partner?

Producer-No? Hes my lover.

A little bit later

Ted-Ah, sure it must be great! The whole rough-and-tumble of homosexuality!

Brilliant!:p

ferdi · 08-01-2007 02:13AM

Irjudge1 wrote:

Living in sin. Excellent!!

You may think so now but it wont be so excellent when your burn for eternity in HELL!!!!!

Nuttzz · 08-01-2007 11:12AM

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote:

"Partner" seems very dry and formal to me, personally. Very business-like. I'd much rather someone using the person's name or b/f/g/f.

exactly and its worse when kids are involved, it sounds like they have shares in them!

Jimoslimos · 08-01-2007 11:36AM

Nuttzz wrote:

exactly and its worse when kids are involved, it sounds like they have shares in them!

Yep, and the woman always has the 50.1% controlling stake

Seriously though its gf for me and we've been going out for close on 7 years. The word "partner" makes me feel old, and I'm not ready to be old.

Dreamer 7 · 08-01-2007 11:38AM

When i was having my kids they always called him my husband (were engaged) and I never corrected them. To me partner is either business or same sex couple

NextSteps · 08-01-2007 03:29PM

iguana wrote:

Referring to the man who I live with and share a bank account with as a boyfriend just seems to say that our relationship is less than it is. I had boyfriends when I was 5. Then proper boyfriends as a teenager and in my early twenties, back when I was living with my parents. To me boyfriend is synonymous with carefree, easygoing times.

When you live with someone you make important life decisions together, you are the person they rely on when things are bad for them and they are for you. That is a partnership and as such I think partner is a nice way to describe each other. It says, "we're in this life together" I still refer to my husband as my partner sometimes.

Yeah, it's a tricky one. He's my partner when I'm talking to Eircom or someone I want to take us seriously as joint house owners or whatever, or if I want to imply that it's a long-term, marriage-like thing. But it's a lousy term. But then 'husband' doesn't appeal either - feels very old!

nesf · 08-01-2007 04:47PM

embee wrote:

When we had a baby.

I never called him my "partner" up to now, but since we had the child, he gets referred to as my "partner" in certain circumstances.

Same here, it's less awkward than saying fiancee (which is just cumbersome imho).

Flukey · 08-01-2007 05:34PM

If someone introduced someone with them as their partner, the natural question for me to ask them is "What business are you both in?" There is nothing wrong with using terms like boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, fiance, fiancee etc. For the record, I don't have a partner. I am self-employed.

Tazz T · 08-01-2007 05:41PM

I'd say people are partners when they're in the business of raising children together. Up until then it's bf and gf having a bit or craic and the only business conducted is lending each other money occasionally.

qz · 08-01-2007 05:55PM

Mine calls me her 'teammate' for some reason

As long as the sex is routine, I don't think it matters all that much.

Flukey · 08-01-2007 06:37PM

So qz, do you score often?

bug · 09-01-2007 01:43AM

I'm 28 and the first time I heard it was a few years ago, he was a fifty year old homosexual man. They did have a lot of investments together and incidently some business arrangements.

Since then I've heard people my own age and in work say it and it takes on a whole other dimension to me. Its like their trying to cement it together for other people, as if the term gf or bf is just too flimsy for them.

I dunno whatever floats your boat, I don't really like it though.

I call him by his name, mostly, and whatever else I call him would just appears as asterix here.

Hows your partner??

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