Before he was your husband, that is? So like...when you were dating or engaged?
Brought to you by my sister referring to her boyfriend as her husband on FB today.
My idiotic youngest sister is doing this too. She is still married to her 1st husband and to my knowledge hasn't even started the paperwork to process the divorce. She just found out 3 weeks ago that she is now pg with his baby. She is now referring to him as her husband.
*side note* I just realized this should be in the random thread.
WTF.
Also to answer the question, no. I didn't refer to any of my ExH's as anything then what their title truly was. I think you kind of earn that title of fiance/wife/husband etc....
No but my brother for some nutso reason added his girlfriend's place of work on his Linkin profile and said he was married to someone who worked there. Under his employment info.
Post by Captain Jack Harkness on Sept 10, 2013 9:47:04 GMT -5
No. Before we were married, H and I just referred to each other as whatever "level" we were at. We'd been boyfriend/girlfriend so long that it felt really weird calling him fiance/husband. SIL tends to jump the gun. She would start picking out engagement rings and called each of her last boyfriend her fiance after she had been dating them for about a year. They never officially got engaged. He dumped her a year later, at which point she found out he had been cheating on her.
I did in certain instances. We had lived together for 9 years and had joint everything....and some places won't speak to you if you reference boyfriend vs. husband. Something as minor as calling the cell phone company could be a royal pain. The account was under his name, but it was my phone that had the problem. I got told tough when he was my boyfriend, but after calling back and getting someone different, husband did the trick. The time that stands out though was when he broke his leg and needed a ton of stuff taken care of. PT appointments rearranged, Rx's filled that had questions, etc. No one would speak with me if I referenced boyfriend, but say husband and there were never any problems.
But then, after living together for 9 years common law would technically make him my husband.....
Nope. I just called him whatever he was at the time.
I did have a friend who insisted that she didn't have a boyfriend, she had a "future husband". Needless to say she was quite embarrassed when they broke up.
I did in certain instances. We had lived together for 9 years and had joint everything....and some places won't speak to you if you reference boyfriend vs. husband. Something as minor as calling the cell phone company could be a royal pain. The account was under his name, but it was my phone that had the problem. I got told tough when he was my boyfriend, but after calling back and getting someone different, husband did the trick. The time that stands out though was when he broke his leg and needed a ton of stuff taken care of. PT appointments rearranged, Rx's filled that had questions, etc. No one would speak with me if I referenced boyfriend, but say husband and there were never any problems.
But then, after living together for 9 years common law would technically make him my husband.....
I think this is different than socially. I mean, I pretended to be my husband's ex wife in order to cancel an ez-pass that was issued in her name but linked to my husband's accounts.
no. i switched from boyfriend to fiance. and then, for some reason, called him "my boyfriend" AFTER we got married. i had a mental block about moving from fiance to husband.
in any event, i never attempted an extralegal upgrade of our relationship status.