I am dating one man. I can handle saying that. I can say, "Oh, the man I'm dating". I can even call him by his name, which happens to be the same as my father's, but I think I already went over that dilemma.
However, I get tongue tied and trip all over the words at, oh alright then, b..b..boyfriend. I mean he is 55 years old for heaven's sake! He hasn't been a boy for a very, very long time, in fact his boys are almost not boys anymore.
Clearly we need a bit more vocabulary here. 'Boyfriend', just sounds... funny, odd and weird. 'Man friend' sounds like something from a Frankenstein movie. To say, 'my friend' sounds gay and I although I happen to adore gays, I am not, so that doesn't help. There are a few other words I could use, but they actually only get me into more trouble.
When I told him one lunch that one of the kids had called him, my 'boyfriend'. He just smiled.
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