Roberta,
The point I'm making is the lady was taken back by my comment as she must have assumed I was female , it's not often you hear a woman talk about a wife .
I agree there's nothing wrong with a woman calling her female partner her wife but it is fairly unusual . I have talked to women about my children and grandchildren but that's not so bad , although it takes a little getting use to knowing they could be thinking I'm the mother and not their father .
So maybe this raises the question for other members , would you keep quite and let them assume that or do you correct them , obviously you have to consider if you still have a wife or not , my divorce is now final so I no longer have a wife in this situation .
