Question for the guys....do you call your girlfriend your wifey?


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sugar_caines is offline sugar_caines Post #1  July 16,2009, 5:43pm
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I'm just curious if the men here ever used the term 'wifey' to refer to their significant other/person they were dating and if so what meaning does that term hold to you guys? Is it a term of endearment? Are you signifying that you view the woman as potential wife material? Or just something that you commonly use?
 
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sugar_caines wrote :
I'm just curious if the men here ever used the term 'wifey' to refer to their significant other/person they were dating and if so what meaning does that term hold to you guys? Is it a term of endearment? Are you signifying that you view the woman as potential wife material? Or just something that you commonly use?
Nope, but my girlfriend and I were at Old Navy, and I was trying on clothes, and she went off to get a few more shirts, and one of the workers there was like, "Oh your wife went off to get some more shirts."

Inside, I felt this chill go up my spine.
 
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sugar_caines wrote :
I'm just curious if the men here ever used the term 'wifey' to refer to their significant other/person they were dating and if so what meaning does that term hold to you guys? Is it a term of endearment? Are you signifying that you view the woman as potential wife material? Or just something that you commonly use?
Umm...no!
 
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When you live together, sleep together, and likewise do as much together as if you're already married--except that you aren't married nor even engaged--is when the term "wifey" is supposed to be used. However, it is considered a slang word because people commonly misuse it, besides the fact that it's a made-up word in the first place.

Also, I've noticed that increasingly more people that were born in the 70's and 80's are seeing marriage as an expensive, unnecessary ritual that is only done for legal and religious purposes. As long as you live together, promise to take care of each other, and not have intimate relations with other people, getting married changes nothing except that you have the option of filing taxes jointly and breaking up requires you to sign a lot of divorce paperwork.

Having said all that, it should be no surprise that I have not yet had a girlfriend that I can call "my wifey". The odd thing is that I've never been afraid of commitment; but my girlfriends were. I suspect that's because I wanted too much commitment too soon.

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jayjay is offline jayjay Post #5  July 16,2009, 7:00pm
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No....I would never call my girlfriend 'wifey'. That would just seem really weird. I wouldn't even call my wife that if I were married.
 
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Harvey7 is offline Harvey7 Post #6  July 16,2009, 9:22pm

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None of the above would be a good fit for me to use in anyway. It a slang word that has no meaning for anyone except you. Do you miss being called wifey?

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TBemrose is offline TBemrose Post #7  July 16,2009, 10:45pm
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I think I called my girl wifey before we were married. I can't remember if it was only after we were engaged or not. I continued calling her that after we got married.

I'll tell another guy to "ask your wifey..." or similar usage.

I think for me, it's signified that the relationship has grown deeper than just boyfriend-girlfriend and you are an integrated/established couple. For me the derivation is that it's just a cutsie term that replaces the older usage of "so I was talking to the Mrs. and she said ..."
 
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If I were single I would never call any girl or woman that as doing so is presenting her to the public as my wife which carries legal connotations such as it can be the basis of her being declared your common-in-law wife.
 
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She's my "date", "girlfriend", "fiance" or "wife". Period. What's with the dopey titles? If you are not married why and to whom would you try to imply that you are. If it's a pet name, usually that's more like"sweetheart", or something.
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No....I would never call my girlfriend 'wifey'. That would just seem really weird. I wouldn't even call my wife that if I were married.
 
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