SIGNIFICANT OTHER: Increasingly Significant Issue

[Ruth Barton]

Why not just call them "friend" and be done with it.  If one is living with
them surely they must be a friend.  Ruth




At 7:27 PM -0400 4/10/02, Joanne M. Despres wrote:
>It seems to me that "partner" (less formal) and "domestic partner"
>(more formal) are the terms of choice for gays, lesbians, and
>bisexuals.  I'm not usually the first to catch on to newer trends,
>though -- maybe others have a different impression.  To my ears,
>those terms sound more to the point and less euphemistically
>vague than "companion" and less klutzily p.c. than "significant
>other."
>
>Joanne Despres

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Ruth Barton
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Westminster, VT