Although there is something to be said about the defanged passion of the term partner. And not that husband or girlfriend or whatever innately implies passion, but rather I think we need a new word that gets us closer to one another, or several others. Something in between lover (which feels very transient) and partner (which feels very technical) — let us invoke Dionysus
Although there is something to be said about the defanged passion of the term partner. And not that husband or girlfriend or whatever innately implies passion, but rather I think we need a new word that gets us closer to one another, or several others. Something in between lover (which feels very transient) and partner (which feels very technical) — let us invoke Dionysus
There are lovers and there are haters. That’s it.
Unfortunately I have a hater wife.
very sad but big if true.
I cringe a bunch if someone refers to their partner as “lover”. Idk why
It has a kind of wealthy-Victorian-playboy-on-the-fringes-of-polite-society air to it.
I see it a lot in the kink community I guess
romantic sexfriend?
Too descriptive; it becomes impersonal