the captians wench
sewing wench
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Well, actually it was yesterday...
We went to his grandparents' 60th wedding anniversary party. There were tons of relatives of his that I had never met, so I had to introduce myself. The thing is, I really don't know how to refer to myself in relation to him when other people ask. Sooo...
Auntie A: Hello, I'm Auntie A.
Me: Hello, I'm Seela. (assuming that people have at least heard of me and remember the rather uncommon name that I go by to him and his family)
Auntie A: And you are..? (looking rather quizzical)
Me: I'm...umm...I'm his. (pointing towards J standing besides the next table.)
I really didn't know what to say other than being his. I'm not his wife, I'm not his fiancée, the only place I even occasionally refer to him as my boyfriend is Lit, so calling myself his girlfriend just sounds weird.
Interestingly enough, when his mom introduced me to some other people, she said I'm his son's friend. Well, we have two words for friend, one more casual and one serious, close friend, she used the serious, close friend word but still she referred to me as his friend. We've been together for close to six years now. I guess other people have a hard time wrapping their heads around what we are to each other.
Anyways, it really made me smile afterwards, when I was done feeling like an idiot for not knowing how to introduce myself, that I told people that I'm his. And he rather liked it as well.
*giggles* This is the same way I handled things in Ireland when they came up (though they didn't often)
I remember the first time I went over and seeing a text he sent out to his cousin explaining he would be in her neighborhood because he was "with a friend from the states" I kind of pouted over that one the entire bus ride to the hotel. But then when I really thought about it, I didn't know what he should have said, so I got over it.