Help with term boyfriend or something else

[Sweetnessandlight1]

Can you help me out with this as to the correct terminology.

My half sister has a boyfriend. She lives in one town, he lives in another town 100 miles away. They've been engaged for about 5 years now and are planning to not get married at any point. They see each other once a month in person.

She got upset at me that I called him a boyfriend. Accepted, I probably should have called him her fiance. She calls him her partner. To me a partner is someone you live with and not someone you see irregularly. It all just seems such a casual arrangement and I don't understand why they done move in together- all very odd to me.

What is the correct term? The one she uses?

The correct term is whatever she wants you to use surely 🤷🏻‍♀️

It's all just whatever people want really, it's nothing to just use what people prefer. Unless it's something whacky like "king of my heart"! Fiancé makes sense if they're engaged albeit in a slightly different circumstance to the majority.

Yh guess so

This reads like something involving a group of teenagers. Just use whatever term she prefers. It costs you nothing and I don't see why you're agonising over it. She seems a bit sensitive about it though. Maybe relationships are a sign of status for her... Or maybe you've been judgemental about her circumstances and she's fed up of it.

I thought a fiancé is still a boyfriend as they aren't married so what is the problem? 🤷🏼‍♀️