No one ever listens to me. Every time I call Renzo my boyfriend, people rechristen him as my "partner." Moments later, I reassert that he is my "boyfriend," making the implicit criticism as obvious as ...

I met my boyfriend when I was 43 and he was 32. For the first couple of years, calling him my boyfriend didn’t raise any eyebrows, but as time went on, that changed. I’m now 54 and he’s 43 and most ...