we human are homosapien,we are totaly diff 4rm animals.
The bible says,a woman wil live her parent house to his own husband and they wil bcome 1.
Marriage is biblecal.

The bible is one group of people's interpretation. It doesn't really have much to say on the topic of what we're talking about here anyway, which is terminology.

And biologically, humans are animals.

I think Johnny was trying to say that he believes that 'mate' is a term to be used for the animal kingdom, and 'husband/wife' are terms to be used for humans.

But that isn't what he said.

I know that...but based on the topic of this thread, and based on the fact that English is not his primary language, that is what I'm guessing he intended.

I prefer the term partner.

To answer your question, my personal choice would be husband and wife. How we choose to refer to our spouse will have little or no affect on the long term outcome of marriage, how we treat each other in marriage is far more important to its success or failure in my opinion.

I have to agree that it is the treatment of our significant other, mate, spouse, partner (which also means mate) that really counts. Otherwise you might as well not even be in a relationship.

Well I became a widow at 43, so um the concept of following my husband in death, was not an option I still had kids to raise. I can tell you though I still think the sound of husband sounds perfect. It makes sense to me that,
If you have love in your heart to give you can love more than one person in life.

Since I consider life and love an adventure into the unknown, I always look at that person I share it with as my equal partner and colleague.

So far, of all the polite socially and politically correct terms is, to me, the absolute worst and very demeaning term "significant other"; not only is it totally devoid of any real human connection/emotional relationship but it begs the question, other what?
While this seemingly innocuous term may be 'politically correct' in many circles of un-real people it does relegate someone who is part of one's intimate life to nothing more than an insignificant other being...Even the street lingo terms seem more human and connected.
As far as the term 'human beings' go, it really would be more accurate to replace it with my favourite term; Bozosapiens...

Hummmm go girl have done d same too we have d same in common

Am so sorry abt ur husband death.

I think the human version of a mate is a mate as well. For legal purposes, mates who wish to have government aknowledgement and validation are called 'husband and wife' and must go through some government process to have their relationship documented,,,

for religious purposes, mates who choose God as a third partner are historically referred to as husband and wife


I would rather include in my commitment to my mate a commitment to God to have the type of partnership he has instructed. For me, it would not matter if we were called mates or husband and wife, so long as God was the third partner in our commitment.

nice question! But in short word what i feel is that,it is not the matter of the name used to call your other half but how deep your heart recorgnizes her impportance in your life and what your heart establishes her to be.either sex mate or love mate,it is who and how your heart defines and value her that is who he/she will be to you and that is how she will be apreciated.many in the with world gave up their half not because of the name used to address their half but because of the failure in understanding the role,imotance and the value of having a partner.example;if your spouse was chosen via an exterior bases once that bases losses it's ground the little twikling emotion goes dries.
But this is it, my criterion of chosen my spouse determines how long and solid we will remain when the people leas by feelings and beauty fades away.i will choose my half on the bases of,helper,motivater and purppose driving person.finally i will consider my half as wife not mate

Thank you Rocky, I appreciate that.

Releation of wife or husband is made by god its yr destiny i love mates but i hate also cz i never ever want that my kids r feeling ashamed embarrace when some one ask the father name :-)
during mate relation no father no mother if some one ask u don't have father mother then how did u come in the world:-D

What a answer brotherB-)