How to Refer to Someone's Not-Spouse

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[Caleb]

Rerun? I still laughed...

[Soul of Wit]

Disclaimer: the use of the term honey-butt may induce the spewing of liquid from unintended orifices.

Younger women that I know are generally offended by the use of boy/girlfriend. I think that they find it demeaning to the relationship. That I am somehow trying to insinuate that their significant other is the opposite of a lover. And, yes, I despise the SO term. Lover is creepy, even if accurate. Frankly, I find most terms other than boy/girlfriend to be lacking. "Gentleman caller" does have a nice genteel quality to it. "My +1" has the advantage of brevity. The best that I've heard is "my fella". Unfortunately, there is no good female substitute for fella/fellow. A lady fellow is, well, a fellow.

Wait, let me try it... I'd like you to meet my lady fellow. Nope.

[TR]

Brilliant summation of a true conversational awkwardness!

[Jacob]

I still like "the woman you refuse to marry" from one of your earlier comics.

[Duncan]

Once again, excellent stuff, keep it up!

[JM]

This has just reappeared in my google reader feed after a gap of more than a year. Did I do something wrong, or has something changed?

[atec]

wow! pure gold!

[Klepto]

Funny as always, especially the last panel. :)
When I'm not sure if someone I know is "married" to their partner or not but I can assume they're in a committed relationship, I generally use the term Significant Other. Sometimes it is abbreviated to S.O.

[Joyce Melton]

Great gags, I LOLed on each panel.

But wow! The art looks different. Did you clean your pens? :)

- Joyce

[Shawn]

Really good one this time! "I'm not comfortable with THAT." ha!

[Gyrogeerloose]

Back when we were co-habitating, I referred to my now-wife as my spouse equivalent.

[Atheismo]

2nd panel for the win! "... she ordered me to stop." Ain't it the truth!

My wife's german. I call her "meine Führerin", give her a hearty "ja vol!" and clack my heels before I follow her orders. She doesn't think that's too funny. Germans ... no sense of humor.

[Kibi]

When in the mood for an awkward term I like to use "significant other" - 'cos it trips so lightly off the tongue.

[cody]

so very, very true. this is a constant problem for me.

[Paul_Bags]

'other half' is fairly non-specific, though I imagine it's not to everyones taste.

[Grammer Natsi]

What's with the on-again/off-again glasses?

[hans]

This comic just popped up in my RSS reader. I hadn't seen a comic of yours in a long time and figured you'd stopped making them. Turns out you hadn't stopped at all! Seems like I have a lot of catching up to do!

Do you have any idea why your RSS feed stopped working for, I think, several years?

[kuldeep]

where is the logic?
where this world is coming to?
what for gods sake is the problem with first option? the name?

[Tomic]

I always thought "partner" sounded more like a business arrangement. There ought to be a nicer general name for it and personally I'd vote for "honey-butt".

I'm in the UK and I'd love to hear the BBC refer to the leader of the opposition party Ed Miliband and his honey-butt Justine.

[Yeebok]

I can't be first, surely ? lol :) "Boss ?" LOL!

[Bart]

I wonder what goes through a mans mind when he nicknames his significant other "honey butt". On second (and more vivid) thought, I withdraw the question!

[AC]

omg, lol, that is good! I really need to read these before I go to work and sit at my desk. I wonder what health issues I am developing by not allowing my full laughter to be expressed?

[norbizness]

Mender of my hoodies... taper of my broken glasses... musser of my hair...

[Graham]

"She ordered me to stop." Ha!

[Jake]

You're in my mind D:

I have this same conversation with pretty much everyone I meet, even friends from my childhood.