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"When Peter and I first married, it took him nearly six months to be able to say the word &amp;quot;wife&amp;quot;. I&amp;#039;m not kidding! Whenever he introduced me it was &amp;quot;This is Ellie, my\u2026uh\u2026&amp;quot; and I&amp;#039;d jump in and take over the introduction, or he&amp;#039;d just give my name and no further explanation. It was comical at first, but it wasn&amp;#039;t until I got good and upset at him finally that he made an effort and managed to choke the word out. I guess that should have been an omen. And now, here I am, nearly 20 years later, finding myself in much the same quandry. I have a bad habit of calling Peter my husband, still. I suppose technically, that&amp;#039;s true as we haven&amp;#039;t even filed for divorce yet, but he&amp;#039;s been moved out nearly a year now. It seems strange to say &amp;quot;My husband and I did such and such once&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Let me see if my husband can switch nights with me so I can come to your home party&amp;quot; or whatever. He&amp;#039;s my husband, but he&amp;#039;s not, not really. Slowly but surely, I&amp;#039;m training myself to call him &amp;quot;the kids&amp;#039; father&amp;quot;. It doesn&amp;#039;t feel right calling him my ex yet, when he&amp;#039;s really not that officially. He is, however, the father of my children and will always be. I think it&amp;#039;s a good moniker, and it&amp;#039;s working for me, when I remember it. I suppose there are a whole litany of names I could call him that I can&amp;#039;t print here, but I&amp;#039;ll take the high road and stick with what works for now. Did you have this problem? How did you refer to your ex before he officially became an ex? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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