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What do you call a relationship where they are living together? My wife has a problem with our son in such a relationship, where he says they are "dating." We think it's more than just "dating."
What do you call a relationship where they are living together? My wife has a problem with our son in such a relationship, where he says they are "dating." We think it's more than just "dating."
I think it's more than dating as well. I had this 'title' issue with my SO or bf or whatever it is you would like to call him. He kept saying we were dating and to be truthful, it upset me.
If I am living with him, washing, folding, and putting away his clothes, having dinner ready for him when he gets home, cleaning the house, doing the grocery shopping, etc, I am more than dating.
On top of those things, we sleep in the same bed and are intimate with one another. We go to bed together at night, and we wake up together in the morning. We visit our family members together, we do everything together.
That is not dating. So, we made it to boyfriend and girlfriend. We are not married, but it sure feels like we are. In that case, I feel like I am more than just his girlfriend, so what is the name for it?
Well, thanks to a CD thread I was on last night, I learned that Face book is calling him my Domestic Partner.
I said, "Yay! You're my domestic partner!" He said, "Well thank God we now have a name for what we are! Now when someone asks, that's what I will tell them!"
We were both cracking up, and to be goofy, I changed my fb status, and he accepted. Now we have confirmed that we are domestic partners, living in sin! Oh. no.
Unless engaged or married, I would think bf/gf is sufficient when living together.
Of course.... in response to this...
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Originally Posted by Pikantari
I think it's more than dating as well. I had this 'title' issue with my SO or bf or whatever it is you would like to call him. He kept saying we were dating and to be truthful, it upset me.
If I am living with him, washing, folding, and putting away his clothes, having dinner ready for him when he gets home, cleaning the house, doing the grocery shopping, etc, I am more than dating.
On top of those things, we sleep in the same bed and are intimate with one another. We go to bed together at night, and we wake up together in the morning. We visit our family members together, we do everything together.
That is not dating. So, we made it to boyfriend and girlfriend. We are not married, but it sure feels like we are. In that case, I feel like I am more than just his girlfriend, so what is the name for it?
Well, thanks to a CD thread I was on last night, I learned that Face book is calling him my Domestic Partner.
I said, "Yay! You're my domestic partner!" He said, "Well thank God we now have a name for what we are! Now when someone asks, that's what I will tell them!"
We were both cracking up, and to be goofy, I changed my fb status, and he accepted. Now we have confirmed that we are domestic partners, living in sin! Oh. no.
I think it's more than dating as well. I had this 'title' issue with my SO or bf or whatever it is you would like to call him. He kept saying we were dating and to be truthful, it upset me.
If I am living with him, washing, folding, and putting away his clothes, having dinner ready for him when he gets home, cleaning the house, doing the grocery shopping, etc, I am more than dating.
On top of those things, we sleep in the same bed and are intimate with one another. We go to bed together at night, and we wake up together in the morning. We visit our family members together, we do everything together.
That is not dating. So, we made it to boyfriend and girlfriend. We are not married, but it sure feels like we are. In that case, I feel like I am more than just his girlfriend, so what is the name for it?
Well, thanks to a CD thread I was on last night, I learned that Face book is calling him my Domestic Partner.
I said, "Yay! You're my domestic partner!" He said, "Well thank God we now have a name for what we are! Now when someone asks, that's what I will tell them!"
We were both cracking up, and to be goofy, I changed my fb status, and he accepted. Now we have confirmed that we are domestic partners, living in sin! Oh. no.
Funny, everyone's definition of everything is somewhat different.
FWIW, "exclusive" to me doesn't necessarily mean BF/GF. When I've been in "casual" relationships, I generally don't like for either of us to be "casual" other people. That might change the definition of "casual" for some, lol, but I'm not really into sloppy seconds.
The only time it didn't work for me was when she was overally caught up in titles.
My ex-SO's definition of "friend" was very different from mine. As in, "She's just a 'friend'."
It was our differing definitions that broke us up.
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