Gotcha.. well, I suppose it's a matter of deciding how important this is to you. I get why you feel the way you do about partner, but my personal feeling is that it's more “serious” than boyfriend. Like if I didn't believe in marriage and didn't marry my husband, “partner” would feel like it describes our relationship better than boyfriend at this stage where we're absolutely life partners. Seems like that might be how your girlfriend feels about it too. Would she be uncomfortable with you calling yourself her boyfriend if that's what you want to do? If so then maybe you can both just use your own preferred term.
Break up and take the cat, or rehome it with someone who isn’t cruel.
A vet can help you figure out what is going on with kitty. It could be cat herpes, allergies, stress, cat OCD, or something else. All are treatable.
(Cat herpes is like the cat version of cold sores. But it causes them to get runny nose and eyes. Animals can have OCD, they will groom excessively, look up barber mice).
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Gotcha.. well, I suppose it's a matter of deciding how important this is to you. I get why you feel the way you do about partner, but my personal feeling is that it's more “serious” than boyfriend. Like if I didn't believe in marriage and didn't marry my husband, “partner” would feel like it describes our relationship better than boyfriend at this stage where we're absolutely life partners. Seems like that might be how your girlfriend feels about it too. Would she be uncomfortable with you calling yourself her boyfriend if that's what you want to do? If so then maybe you can both just use your own preferred term.
Break up and take the cat, or rehome it with someone who isn’t cruel.
A vet can help you figure out what is going on with kitty. It could be cat herpes, allergies, stress, cat OCD, or something else. All are treatable.
(Cat herpes is like the cat version of cold sores. But it causes them to get runny nose and eyes. Animals can have OCD, they will groom excessively, look up barber mice).
Not everything but a big thing in a relationship, yes.