Yes! Agree. Though I don't think it is her achilles heal at all. It is her strength. After all that is where we get our true strength from if we are lucky. From those we hold dearest to us. That we have placed in our heart. Yes! Joyce taught her to love. Actually love is such an overused word. I love chocolate, peanuts, blue skies. I'm not really sure what love is. Some think that to be in love is a transient state. If one falls 'in love' one can fall 'out of love'. So I don't know. </>there is no nifty, agreed-upon "label" for what my partner is to me
I think 'partner' is the pc term all round these days. Same sex has no legal standing other than it is legal to have a same sex relationship in private, in Australia. There is no legal recognition, as far as I know, in any state of Oz for a same sex relationship.
One of my brother's partners - woman, they just weren't married - hated any title being put in front of her name. You know Ms, Miss, Mrs. Now me, I don't care. Well okay I did not like my mother in law so I used to object to being called Mrs O'Connor for a while there. :D Not really though.
My best friend is a woman. I call her my girl friend. Some people assume that we are lesbians when I say that, if they don't know us. I went to the US with a friend - another girlfriend. We were assumed by quite a few we met - particularly in San Francisco - to be in a relationship. The world is still sorting all this relationship stuff out. People shoot other people because they think they are looking at them wrong, so it is not surprising that after a couple of millenia of the bible telling us what to think and do about sex, we still haven't a buggering clue. :D
Hubby and I have been married 27 years. Today that is wrong. We should have had several partners in that time by the standards that run through society these days.
*pouts*
Bugger! I'd pout too. Steroids do that. They are a miracle drug, my mum wouldn't be here without them, but they do have unpleasant side effects.
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Yes! Agree. Though I don't think it is her achilles heal at all. It is her strength. After all that is where we get our true strength from if we are lucky. From those we hold dearest to us. That we have placed in our heart.
Yes! Joyce taught her to love.
Actually love is such an overused word. I love chocolate, peanuts, blue skies. I'm not really sure what love is. Some think that to be in love is a transient state. If one falls 'in love' one can fall 'out of love'. So I don't know.
</>there is no nifty, agreed-upon "label" for what my partner is to me
I think 'partner' is the pc term all round these days. Same sex has no legal standing other than it is legal to have a same sex relationship in private, in Australia. There is no legal recognition, as far as I know, in any state of Oz for a same sex relationship.
One of my brother's partners - woman, they just weren't married - hated any title being put in front of her name. You know Ms, Miss, Mrs. Now me, I don't care. Well okay I did not like my mother in law so I used to object to being called Mrs O'Connor for a while there. :D Not really though.
My best friend is a woman. I call her my girl friend. Some people assume that we are lesbians when I say that, if they don't know us. I went to the US with a friend - another girlfriend. We were assumed by quite a few we met - particularly in San Francisco - to be in a relationship. The world is still sorting all this relationship stuff out. People shoot other people because they think they are looking at them wrong, so it is not surprising that after a couple of millenia of the bible telling us what to think and do about sex, we still haven't a buggering clue. :D
Hubby and I have been married 27 years. Today that is wrong. We should have had several partners in that time by the standards that run through society these days.
*pouts*
Bugger! I'd pout too. Steroids do that. They are a miracle drug, my mum wouldn't be here without them, but they do have unpleasant side effects.