I’ve noticed it for years and find it so bizarre.
If a poster says she’s been with her partner for five years but they don’t live together there are screams of ‘you don’t even live together. He's your boyfriend’.
If she says they live together but have only been together for a year it’s ’not sure why you’re calling him your partner. He's barely a boyfriend’.
And then on the flip side, if a woman calls her husband her partner, presumably due to habit, she gets leapt on with ‘why are you calling your husband your partner OP’.
Am I missing something? Is there some strict definition of partner I’ve missed?
It irritates the fuck out of me, unreasonable or not.