I guess today is the day you learned what spinster means.
cotsy93 on
A woman over 35 having a child is referred to as a geriatric pregnancy which I think is unnecessarily insulting.
MPaulina on
How are unmarried men called?
zerbey on
Correct wording but seems very quaint and archaic nowadays. I hear spinster I think of the kindly old lady who used to babysit me and taught Sunday school at my childhood church.
At one point women were only considered spinsters until age 35. Then we became thornbacks.
Southern-Occasion-41 on
Got married in 2008 in Jamaica-I, an American woman is listed as Spinster on my Marriage certificate
No-Inside-6017 on
My legal guardian was an aunt who was now what we understand to be aro/ace, and she self identified as a spinster. She was a boomer but high functioning autistic and because of bonding to her own European mother and country Texas grandmother, she was verrrrry silent/greatest gen coded. I’ve had to explain the term many times while discussing my family, even to 30+yo and was genuinely surprised that it seems to be so obscure in general vernacular.
bodhidharma132001 on
Very common
ScholarLeigh on
When I got married in Jamaica in 2004, the space for me to sign on the marriage certificate said “Spinster”
Medysus on
Did they use that for all unmarried women or just those after a certain age?
SayRahhh42 on
In 2009 I was buying a house in Nevada. Everywhere in my mortgage documentation where it mentioned me, it said “an unmarried woman” after my name.
wtfsafrush on
I got married in Jamaica and I give my wife shit all the time because our marriage certificate calls her a spinster.
UneducatedPotatoTato on
I came across a mortgage where the borrower was listed as “sally mae, a spinster woman”. After that, I always wanted to use the spinster woman title part on my mortgage but they wouldn’t let me
rachaeltalcott on
In France, concubine is an official couple status, used to refer to people who live together without being married or having a civil union.
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I guess today is the day you learned what spinster means.
A woman over 35 having a child is referred to as a geriatric pregnancy which I think is unnecessarily insulting.
How are unmarried men called?
Correct wording but seems very quaint and archaic nowadays. I hear spinster I think of the kindly old lady who used to babysit me and taught Sunday school at my childhood church.
Until 2005 Spinster (and Batchelor) were still used as official terms in [UK Governments documents and records](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4141996.stm)
At one point women were only considered spinsters until age 35. Then we became thornbacks.
Got married in 2008 in Jamaica-I, an American woman is listed as Spinster on my Marriage certificate
My legal guardian was an aunt who was now what we understand to be aro/ace, and she self identified as a spinster. She was a boomer but high functioning autistic and because of bonding to her own European mother and country Texas grandmother, she was verrrrry silent/greatest gen coded. I’ve had to explain the term many times while discussing my family, even to 30+yo and was genuinely surprised that it seems to be so obscure in general vernacular.
Very common
When I got married in Jamaica in 2004, the space for me to sign on the marriage certificate said “Spinster”
Did they use that for all unmarried women or just those after a certain age?
In 2009 I was buying a house in Nevada. Everywhere in my mortgage documentation where it mentioned me, it said “an unmarried woman” after my name.
I got married in Jamaica and I give my wife shit all the time because our marriage certificate calls her a spinster.
I came across a mortgage where the borrower was listed as “sally mae, a spinster woman”. After that, I always wanted to use the spinster woman title part on my mortgage but they wouldn’t let me
In France, concubine is an official couple status, used to refer to people who live together without being married or having a civil union.