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xkcd #3237: Husband and Wife

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Borat came out twenty years ago this year--closer to the breakup of the Soviet Union than to today--but it honestly feels like it's been even longer, somehow.

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

A Singaporean woman was the first person I heard refer to their opposite-sex partner as "partner" back in probably 2010 and I adopted it. I had a pretty skewed idea of marriage as a kid and it instantly changed my thinking.

Your spouse SHOULD be your partner. You're on a team facing this big stupid world together.