Don't you think the phrase "long term partner" is absurd?!
Question: To me it just says "look at me - am I not amazing for making my relationship last longer than a week?". People should never get into trivial, futureless relationships with those that they are totally unsuited for. And people certainly shouldn't boast about not doing so.
In the words of David Bowie, I'm never going to fall for modern love.
Answers: To me it just says "look at me - am I not amazing for making my relationship last longer than a week?". People should never get into trivial, futureless relationships with those that they are totally unsuited for. And people certainly shouldn't boast about not doing so.
In the words of David Bowie, I'm never going to fall for modern love.
Well not everyone is as wonderfully smart as you all of the time. sometimes you think it has a future and you think you are suited, genuinly....but I am sure YOU would know the difference....you should really sell your services....you may make lots of money
no xx
Just do whatever suits you.
No it's not absurd.
okay I understand now.
Yes.
Long term partners sounds like you have been together for a while, but it IS going to end! I hate it, it's stupid!
I agree. I have a wife. It is not serial monogamy. Wife. Til death do us part.
hey now...been married 34 yrs....happy.....
Eww, ugh, i know...
i knew this guy, his parents called themselves "partners" i finally realized "partners" is just a nice way of saying "F*ck buddies"
No, I do not think that it is. I think that it is an accurate description if someone is in a long term relationship.
Absurd how? Three short words to describe your relationship status. Makes sense to me... whereas that hat doesn't lol
as opposed to short term...length is all in the "eyes" of the beholder
NO.!!!
Just another wacko" politically correct " phrase. I agree with you. Why waste your life on a relationship that you don't see any future in.
It sounds cold and lacking in passion
you sound bitter. be careful - bitterness gives you wrinkles!
just do what ever sounds good to you
I've never actually heard that term until just now.
Consider the source..
David Bowie also said: “I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.”
I don't think it's absurd at all.
When one says "this is my boyfriend/girlfriend" that has a short term connotation to it, whereas introducing people to your wife/husband has a more permanent sound to it.
By saying "long term partner" they are saying they are in a permanent committed relationship but chose (or was forced in the case of gay couples) not to marry, rather than being in a more temporary boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. (Or at least that's how most people perceive boyfriend/girlfriend).
I never really thought about it because I don't hear this that much in my daily life. However, after giving it some thought, it does seem a bit absurd. I'm married, happily. It seems a bit redundant, no? It would be better to say this is my girlfriend or boyfriend to signify possibly a short-term relationship if it matters. It's bizarre. It does sound a bit like a status symbol of sorts.
Edit: Have we become more insecure and need ways to make ourselves feel better even if it's completely ridiculous?
Well said that man with the crowbar!
Now that's a phrase I never thought I'd hear myself say.
"Partner" sounds like a solicitors practice.
I have a "main squeeze" she is lovely.
i will ask my partner.lol
That's an odd phrase, i have a wife whom i've been married to for 13 years. I call her my wife. And i'm glad i married her.