WELCOME TO MY LAST BREAKUP!

In which not only did my ex argue with me about me not liking the nickname "m'Emily" (which meant "my Emily"), but then tried to use "my girlfriend" as an example of why "my Emily" would be an okay nickname that I should just rearrange my entire feelings about in order to be okay with it.

I asked him if he was really going to use that as an example, and then stated that at least "my girlfriend", similar to "my brother" denotes one specific aspect of a relationship that you have with a given person, whereas "my (insert name here)" implies complete and total ownership of the person as a whole. "my girlfriend/boyfriend" is contextual and implies that person's relationship to you. After all you would say "my mother" right? Because it means out of all the mothers in the world, this specific one has a relationship with you. I don't find myself referring to the people I date as "my boyfriend" or what-have-you - I much prefer to refer to them and introduce them as their first name, and let the fuckers figure it out - but I can understand where that convention comes from. "my (full name here)" though, that's just fucking ridiculous.