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Gender neutral terms for someone you are dating? - June 9th 2015, 05:59 PM

I recently have started going out with someone but we both use they/them pronouns and the term girlfriend makes us moth uncomfortable so are there any gender neutral terms we could use to refer to each other?

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Re: Gender neutral terms for someone you are dating? - June 9th 2015, 06:52 PM

Romantic partner, special someone, better half; can't think of too many sorry

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Re: Gender neutral terms for someone you are dating? - June 9th 2015, 07:25 PM

Partner, significant other, other half, lover

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Re: Gender neutral terms for someone you are dating? - June 9th 2015, 10:52 PM

Hi! Congrats on your new relationship!

I hope I'll be able to help. I found a few options. I hope you can find one you like. It sucks that there aren't more gender-neutral pronouns out there.

Here are the ones I found:

http://nonbinary.org/wiki/Pronouns

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-...erred_pronouns

http://www.urticator.net/essay/0/30.html

http://web.archive.org/web/200308030.../theypaper.htm (appendix C is the most useful part of this link)

https://genderneutralpronoun.wordpress.com/?s=pronouns

https://genderneutralpronoun.wordpre...ed-by-pronoun/

http://genderfork.com/2014/multiling...tral-pronouns/

Also, in terms of what other posters were suggesting, honey, babe, sweetheart, dear(est), darling, and other nicknames along a similar veign can also work.

I hope these were helpful!

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Re: Gender neutral terms for someone you are dating? - June 16th 2015, 06:06 AM

Those list are exhaustive. Pick them dry!

A term that I like to use is "Sig fig" short for "Significant Figure" and is used in math. So, it is a cute rhyme and is nerdy.

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