[Old_Mil]

(Many women even refer to their live-in partner as "fiancé" when a wedding date is nowhere in sight.)

I've noticed that this particularly form of self delusion has been growing in popularity. There are probably at least a dozen women in my graduate school class who have fiancees, despite not having rings or dates.

[hocndoc]

I think the "fiance" title has a couple of sources: a lot of these wome are too old to have "boyfriends," and most people know at a basic level that marriage is a better goal than living together.

[Riverman94610]

Its even worse than that in the hood.
Teenagers now describe themselves as"married"if they have had a boyfriend for more than a month or two.Its a pathetic attempt to delude themselves that they have the stability in their personal lives their parents never had.