“Any kind of relationship can be deeply significant.” “Significance can look a lot of different ways,” says the Boulder-based author of Stepping Off the Relationship Escalator. Lots of American couples choose “significant other.” But my old friend and colleague Amy Gahran cautions against this. Here in the States, however, it tends to connote a same-sex or business relationship. That’s been common terminology in England, where they live, for years. In my sister’s long-term relationship, they are each other’s partners. I’m perfectly happy to be Boyfriend’s girlfriend, but he thinks these honorifics lack gravitas. But as we approach our platinum years, we don’t have time to spare on a long courtship.Īs we prepare to “set up housekeeping” (as my Eastern European grandmother would have put it), we’ve been debating how to refer to each other. We might seem to be moving quickly it wasn’t that long ago that we “came out” as a straight couple in gay-forward Gulfport. In the spirit of our adventures together, Boyfriend and I are taking our relationship to the next level.
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