When does a boyfriend become a partner?

[Littlebitpsycho]

The above basically, interested in others opinions. Is it when you live together but aren't married? Is it just after a certain amount of time has passed? What do you all think?

I've been with my fella 4 months and he is absolutely my boyfriend and not my partner - he has met my 13 year old daughter but only because we work at the same place (and she is clever and noticed he was interested before I did!), he does not come to my home while she is there and we don't spend any time all together

I just see lots of threads mentioning this and thought a discussion would be interesting

Before I married DH I used partner rather than boyfriend. I just felt like boyfriend is what teens/early 20s say but felt daft saying that in late 20s & into 30s.

It wasn't part of my reasoning at the time but I do also like that the use of 'partner' avoids gender which some people prefer. The more people that use it the less it stands out if people use it for that reason.

It's completely up to you OP - either boyfriend or partner is fine, whichever you prefer.

I use partner though technically he's my husband. We don't currently live together but there's good reasons for that which we are working together to sort out (geographical not relationship).

I'd class someone as a partner when you start working together on long term firm goals. So joining savings towards buying a house together etc that kind of thing.