@unforth-ninawaters replied to your post

I’ve used SO – for significant other – when I used to confront the problem that if I said “girlfriend” people might think I meant my friend who was a girl instead of the person I was dating. Perk of being married, now I can just say wife, no confusion to that one (though I still get people who reply to my saying “wife” by saying partner or something and I’m like ?????) I’ve never heard Date-mate, that’s weird to me. It sounds to me like a product to, like, freshen your

breath for a date.

*snorts* People are so odd. You’d think wife would be obvious and not up for correction, but apparently not. 

I think date-mate is a tumblr thing. I’ve seen the push for it to be used and I’m like… there are other words that don’t sound silly. Like, whatever, I’m not judging, but if someone called me their date-mate I’d give them a pretty hard side-eye.

SO, partner, prarmour, those are all fine. Those work. Hell, girlfriend or boyfrined could be fine too as long as I’m not exclusively one or the other, but it’s the slightly silly ones that bug me. Granted, I don’t have to worry about that because I’m not dating atm, but it is something I think about.