Yeah but it doesn't need to be chocolate specifically. For example my fiance is allergic to chocolate. When I can find them there's these maple sandwich cookies she really likes from the health food store.
No, just providing a way of phrasing for that form of relationship that makes sense to non-Americans.
Dating sounds like you're still in the courting phase (or, well, dating) to many around the world, not in a committed relationship for years and living with each other.
I think it's weird that English doesn't have a word for sambo. Partner sort of works, but it's taken on a connotation of permanent dedication, and is often synonymous with spouse. Cohabitant sounds even more emotionally distant than roommate.
It's just a matter of connotation so maybe not everyone feels the same way, but I feel like if someone introduces their sambo I think they live together right now, but maybe not forever and always, whereas if they introduce their partner I'm going to read it as life partner or non-binary spouse.
Hmmmmm.... interesting. You wouldn't possibly mind interviewing your friends and family on that topic and reporting back, perchance? :D
I'd be really interested in if it's more a you thing per a your region thing or actually a nationwide thing. lol
I like to think he made a joke about how women need chocolate on their periods as a cute way of giving her a gift every time she was on her period, assuming she didn't think he was that stupid, and it just never came up again.
As a Father that raised 4 daughters with my wife, chocolate was a line item in the family budget every month.
And while I am no fan of chocolate, one small bar will cover my desire for the stuff for a year, I used to keep a small bar of it on my desk. Just sitting there unopened and uneaten. It drove them all crazy. Are you going to eat that Dad? Can I have it?
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How_do_I_computah@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 38d
"my boyfriend wasn't being kind to me. He was just an idiot."
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 44 pts · 38d
That was my take. Like girl, he knew. It takes 20 seconds to research it.
I am trying to assume it's a joke from her part.
Sergio@piefed.social · 26 pts · 38d
I was guessing it was a joke on both their parts.
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 38d
you'd be surprised by how many people don't research things
Skyrocket0006@feddit.nl · 14 pts · 37d
Its still being kind though
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 37d
Also, people who date never actually talk to one another so there's no way he could have told her that's what he believes
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 38d
Wait! You mean it's NOT? I'm having a talk with my wife.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 38d
So many wives around the world are about to lose their hookup. Way to go OP
Aneb@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 38d
Some things were meant to be kept secret.
blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 38d
Uh... you do need something to replace the iron and sugar you're losing.
Etterra@discuss.online · 6 pts · 37d
Yeah but it doesn't need to be chocolate specifically. For example my fiance is allergic to chocolate. When I can find them there's these maple sandwich cookies she really likes from the health food store.
blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 37d
Sure sure. But chocolate is a safe guess for most partners, I reckon.
wieson@feddit.org · 1 pts · 36d
Should it not be fiancée then?
Etterra@discuss.online · 2 pts · 36d
Yes but I don't care enough to keep manually entering the modification to the American English standard.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 36d
Wouldn't red meat thus be the ideal period want food?
blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 36d
If you want to be practical. If you want to be romantic, chocolate it is.
LogicOverFeelings@piefed.ca · 16 pts · 38d
That's honestly kinda sweet.
Slovene85@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 38d
Depends on the chocolate.
LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 38d
More semi sweet maybe
mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 37d
They broke up so it’s bitter sweet.
ShankShill@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 38d
Dark chocolate has a lot of iron though.
NotANumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 38d
I never knew that.
lulztard@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 38d
Date. Years? Shared flat? American words seem to have no meaning. That wasn't dating, that was a commited, dedicated relationship.
PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 38d
Please remember we are a christofascist theocracy so anything besides a church wedding is considered "dating".
lulztard@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 38d
Fair enough. The concept of anxiety as a culture is very unpleasant to the mind and as such easily and quickly forgotten.
FoxyFerengi@startrek.website · 18 pts · 38d
That's the common verb to use for a romantic relationship where you aren't married or engaged in America. I'm honestly unaware of a different one
Zombie@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 38d
?
offspec@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 38d
Are you quoting this because you think it's in some way contradictory?
Zombie@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 38d
No, just providing a way of phrasing for that form of relationship that makes sense to non-Americans.
Dating sounds like you're still in the courting phase (or, well, dating) to many around the world, not in a committed relationship for years and living with each other.
calliope@retrolemmy.com · 4 pts · 37d
For the record, I wouldn’t say “dating” either, as someone from the U.S., but I wonder if that’s because I’m older or something.
I might say “I had a partner I lived with,” but “dating” for several years sounds ridiculous to me too.
stray@pawb.social · 4 pts · 37d
I think it's weird that English doesn't have a word for sambo. Partner sort of works, but it's taken on a connotation of permanent dedication, and is often synonymous with spouse. Cohabitant sounds even more emotionally distant than roommate.
lulztard@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 37d
https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-sambo-in-sweden
According to this sambo pretty much IS "partner", permanent dedication at all. Though I only skimmed it.
stray@pawb.social · 2 pts · 37d
It's just a matter of connotation so maybe not everyone feels the same way, but I feel like if someone introduces their sambo I think they live together right now, but maybe not forever and always, whereas if they introduce their partner I'm going to read it as life partner or non-binary spouse.
lulztard@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 36d
Hmmmmm.... interesting. You wouldn't possibly mind interviewing your friends and family on that topic and reporting back, perchance? :D I'd be really interested in if it's more a you thing per a your region thing or actually a nationwide thing. lol
Donkter@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 38d
I like to think he made a joke about how women need chocolate on their periods as a cute way of giving her a gift every time she was on her period, assuming she didn't think he was that stupid, and it just never came up again.
naeap@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 38d
Or it was just an excuse to get away for some time to get chocolate...
chloroken@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 38d
WIFE BAD
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 37d
HUSBAND STUPID
naeap@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 38d
MrSelfDestruct@piefed.zip · 6 pts · 38d
Before my wife needed a hysterectomy, I would pick her up a box of tampons and a pint of rocky road.
Bluewing@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 36d
As a Father that raised 4 daughters with my wife, chocolate was a line item in the family budget every month.
And while I am no fan of chocolate, one small bar will cover my desire for the stuff for a year, I used to keep a small bar of it on my desk. Just sitting there unopened and uneaten. It drove them all crazy. Are you going to eat that Dad? Can I have it?
BurnedDonutHole@ani.social · 3 pts · 37d
Is this like that addiction excuses? Where they say they don't need it and they can quit anytime they want.
Noodle07@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 37d
Idk my mom has an addiction to chocolate, I just thought that was a girl thing