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As a follow up to my last post, define the term "friend".

There are no Right Answers, obviously. I'm just curious.

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I can't explain exactly why this is, but people telling me my partner is hot/a good person/a "catch"/worthy/whatever kinda bothers me. The hotness thing particularly tweaks me, as a number of my friends have concluded that the boy is now attractive by their definition as a result of him losing weight and getting all buff.

Am I insane? Does this bother me because it's an enforcement of some "attractiveness" standard? Or because I'm generally sensitive to the whole weight issue (I mean, he's gotten buffer and I've gotten loads fatter in the time we've been dating - is he now hotter than I, and do I care)? Does it bother me that others feel qualified to judge his goodness? Or am I simply contrary in general? Is it all my parents' fault? ;)

I really don't know, and I feel terribly silly being even a tiny bit offended when I can't say why.

[ETA: That I really should have excluded the "catch" comment from my list - that I know offends me with its implications that my role is to catch me a man and all that. Ew!]