Small dishonesty

[fleeblewidget]

This morning I found myself waiting for the kettle to boil in company with Kat, who works on reception. She's nice enough, and I always say hello when I go past in the morning, but we don't know each other all that well. We made friendly small talk about the weather and such-like. And I concealed the truth from her

Comments

[mpettitt]

I know what you mean, and it would be nice, wouldn't it...

[peregrinelady]

Ditto . . . just . . . ditto.

Helpful suggestion

[restlessboy]

How about if you're referring to D you say 'my boyfriend' and if you're referring to JTA you say 'my fiancé' (assuming there's no issue with that word - I was never keen on it, to me it).

That way people will just assume you're talking about one person using interchangeable terms, and wont think anything of it. You can avoid 'getting into it' every time you want to discuss the weather and you avoid downgrading them to 'housemate'.

I appreciate this only works until november. After that 'boyfriend' and 'husband' will probably be less easy to forgivably confuse.

Re: Helpful suggestion

[fleeblewidget]

It's not a bad idea. I have previously floated the idea that I could just call them both 'consort', but for some reason they didn't like it.

I usually play the ambiguity game at the beauty salon. My therapist knows a whole lot about what's going on in my life, but I'm pretty sure she thinks that all the stories are about the same person. She must have a very weird image of my partner, by now...