To hate 'the wife'?

[cheekybaubles]

AIBU to have a go at DH because he addressed me as 'the wife' to someone else? I mean did I wake up this morning in the 1980's during an episode of Boon or something? Urgh!

'utterling' - I've just invented a new word

Hubby is AWFUL. It's just the way it sounds. The words Bupa and hubba and bubba also make me cringe.

OH's ex boss used to refer to his wife as "the wife". I asked him whose wife he was referring to.

I hate the word "hubby". It makes me want to hit the user!

Oh dear, my dh calls me wifey sometimes. It never occurred to me to be offended

DH refers to me as "the wife" and he always referred to a close friend if mine as "my second wife". In front of her and her dh as well. As she got taken by cancer 3 years ago I would love her to still be here to be referred to like that, it was a joke. He is not a chauvinist at all!

Well 'the husband' will be wondering where his dinner is and as I have spent the last our on here I will have to say "in 'the chipshop'"

I don't really get either how being half of a couple (ie 2) makes you half a person? Surely half of 2 is 1 is it not?

I thought spouse was only for married couples, I could be wrong. "Significant other" is also wanky, and long winded. I say my fella or my bloke informally. Might start just referring him as my Mr. Until we get married.

Spouse is only for married partners

Yes, spouse applies

Wiki spouse it says it is for any partners

We aused to refer to MiL as The Memsahib.