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What words, phrases or signs do you use and how do you get your partner's attention?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If I tell my partner that something drains the color out of a room, she knows that whomever I'm talking to is a bigot/phobe and we leave. More often than not though, she'll ask me who it is and tell them off.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, sometimes she is a bit overprotective, once she punched someone who wasn't respecting my pronouns LOL.