
you’re contrasting married couples referring to each other as partners with ppl who are not married, that contrast implies that u think “partner” should refer to a married couple. i wasn’t reading ur comment as differentiating between straight couples and queer ones, it read as if u were differentiating married and not married couples
because that reply was in direct response to me saying boyfriend and girlfriend can be swapped out for partner. so I brought up married couples that used partner too as an example to say calling someone your partner doesn’t cancel out the fact you’re unmarried. quite the opposite of what you’re insisting