22-05-2015, 10:35 AM
Ok, this is probably just a weirdness on my part, but when I write posts and refer to my better half, I almost never use the words "my wife".
Spouse, partner, significant other are all ok, but saying the phrase "my wife" just seems to be demeaning to her somehow. It feels like it's territorial or something. It feels to me that wife implies subservience or something.
It is like the scenario where guy A says to guy B, "you just insulted MY wife" and socks guy B in the jaw. The woman looks on with an expression of "good grief, if I felt insulted I would have said something myself".
Does anyone else see things this way? Am I taking some form of political correctness to far?
Spouse, partner, significant other are all ok, but saying the phrase "my wife" just seems to be demeaning to her somehow. It feels like it's territorial or something. It feels to me that wife implies subservience or something.
It is like the scenario where guy A says to guy B, "you just insulted MY wife" and socks guy B in the jaw. The woman looks on with an expression of "good grief, if I felt insulted I would have said something myself".
Does anyone else see things this way? Am I taking some form of political correctness to far?