Re: off topic --> RE: Work vs marriage

Scott Shafer wrote:
>
> Depends on your social circumstance whether the term is respectful or not.
> In my wilder days, I often hung with a biker crowd. If you considered your
> wife/girfriend your "Old Lady", it was a term of highest respect.

I know a group of club kids who'll refer to their girlfriends as "my trollop" and it's considered respectful. What a strange world we live in.

Usenet tradition is to refer to girlfriend/boyfriend/husband/wife/ live-in lover/whatever as "SO" (for "Significant Other") which, while a bit clinical, does tend to negate misunderstanding.

g

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