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Ugh, the Tamsyn Muir thing drives me nuts. And she refers to her husband by some Internet username to further hide that he's a man, and she calls herself a lesbian.

Anyway, I've always heard partner used to mean a long-term, committed relationship where the two people live together, but aren't married for whatever reason. That's just always how I've heard it used, regardless of the sexes of the people involved. I know it used to be more of an LGB thing because of marriage laws, but I haven't noticed it being a "woke" thing for straight couples in my area. If anything, the people I know using that term are older, and not that woke, but just don't want to get married for whatever reason. I would want to use "partner" too if I were in a long-term relationship in which I lived with the person but we weren't married. Saying "boyfriend" or "girlfriend" would just seem too casual a term for that.