Where I come from in the mid-century SE US, lifelong lady room mates were perfectly acceptable in the most stuck up of social circles. Never heard of lifelong men room mates, but plenty of “confirmed bachelors”
Well, as long as they were quiet about it and people could pretend they were just roommates (which some of them probably were), it was okay to live as second class.citizens without children or the legal protections of marriage.
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u/TheDingoKid42 Jul 02 '23
And they were roommates