Reply To: wife's name

Most of you who believe it is more correct to refer to one’s spouse as “my husband” or “my wife” are conditioned to feel that way. The sensitivity is because you were brought up to think that it is the proper derech. If you were brought up hearing the name being used, you would not think twice about it. Personally, when my friend continuously refers to her husband as “my husband,” it just sounds extremely possessive and way too formal to me. For that matter, why don’t we just go back to calling them “sir” and “madam?”