SIGNIFICANT OTHER: Increasingly Significant Issue

[Kim & Rima McKinzey]

>Have you and/or your members, or other authorities, addressed the question of
>how to address unmarried companions, of either sex? Boyfriend, companion,
>partner, and "significant other" seem to date from the Doris Day era. What is
>the current accepted nonjudgmental term? or, if none, is it time to coin one?
>Thanks so much for your consideration.

My husband in his psychological reports to courts, usually refers to
paramours.  I still like significant other, though.

Rima