abbreviations

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Registered: 10-03-2008
abbreviations
Wed, 10-08-2008 - 10:05pm

will admit..i didn't know some of the lingo/abbreviations, but after much searching..dangnabbit i dont found em...


MM - Married Man
SM/OM - Single Man/Other Man
MW - Married woman
SW/OW - Single Woman/Other Woman
DH/H – Husband
DW/W - Wife
AP - Affair Partner
SO - Significant Other
BF/GF - BoyFriend / GirlFriend
DD - Dependent Daughter
DS - Dependent Son
SS - Step Son
SD - Step daughter
EMA - extra marital affair
LDEMA – long distance extra marital affair
A – affair
M – marriage
LOL - laughing out loud or lots of love
*s* - smiles
BTDT - been there done that
HTH - hope this helps
TY - thankyou
FWB - Friends with Benefits
FWOB - Friends without Benefits
D - divorce.
STBXH - Soon to be Ex Husband
IMO or IMHO - In My Opinion
ITA - I Totally Agree
TYIA - Thanking You In Advance
IC - Intercourse (or, sometimes, Individual Counseling)
MC - Marriage Counseling
IT - Individual Therapy (less confusing than IC!)
KWIM - Know What I Mean


PA - Physical Affair.....touching of a sexual nature has or will imminently occur.


EA - Emotional Affair.....lack of above - or into addition to above - but usually characterized by feelings deeper than that of merely friends and would likely give rise to jealousy in a spouse were the full nature and content of discussions/emails/IM known to spouses.


Also a couple of random ones - OT means off-topic, OS means oral sex, LL means low libido.

"be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"---Dr. Seuss

"be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"---Dr. Seuss