What do you call your dp?

[CarmenH]

Just wondering what anyone else calls their dp?

I feel that boyfriend sounds really teenagery and temporary but don't like partner either as just always think of business partners and think that it sounds a bit not right for us in some indefinable way. People sometimes assume we are married and i don't always correct them if they say husband/wife although obviously this isn't true.

what do other mnetters use?

partner though I kind of cringe when saying it. Agree that boyfriend sounds like a 'living apart' sort of relationship.

'Spouse' makes me cringe even more.

Or significant other - psml

ashamed to say i say 'hubby'
wish there was a word partner sounds knobby...its not fair - shall we invent our own carmen and get it in the oxford english!!!!

At the moment?.... the first derrogatory, sweary word I can think of.

t'other 'alf is very common round here but I dont like that either.

He calls me 'the missus' sometimes so I've started to refer to him as 'im indoors as a revenge (Hes a SAHD).

think it starts with a 'c' and ends with 't' toothache

But they are very useful and quite nice too I think Next

sometimes!!

depends on my mood

Generally his Name when talking to others.
When talking to him he's got a nickname

true true at certain times of the month they are a pain literally

The Other Half mostly but do wish there was a better name. Not sure what he calls me, I will ask him later

i hate partner too - sometimes just say husband its easier

Having recently read your update toothache can understand entirely where you are coming from but not quite what I was thinking of.

Keen to invent new word as agree partner just sounds knobby and kind of fake. Don't mind other half actually, know a couple of people who use that. Could always call him my sexy lover .

May suggest to dp that we get married just so we can say husband and wife without feeling like somone will jump out from behind us shouting liar liar bums on fire!

What about commonlaw husband? I never really understood what that term meant. Civil partnership is another one that makes me smile. Do people enter into uncivil partnerships?

They may not enter into them but the often end up in them iyswim dumbledore

My dh's friend calls his partner 'the missus' which sounds friendly, I think!! Not sure what she calls him, though.

I call my dh by his last name. I always have, I don't think I've ever called him my husband and I very rarely use his first name

thinking about it, it really annoys me, letters from school addressed to mrs.. phone calls can i speak to mrs.. argh . call my dp at work 'your misses is on the phone' or worse 'doris'

Pig obviously.

Shithead unless he comes home from the pub soon.