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		cgh on Jan 9, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Never Lie About Who You Really Are So a woman in her 50s is supposed to refer to her equally old significant other as her "boyfriend"? Seems odd to me. "Partner" seems more dignified and has a connotation of "in it for life".

theorique on Jan 9, 2013 [–]

I prefer it. YMMV.

She could also use "lover", and creep out the young people who don't want to think about older people as sexual beings...

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