The New York Times takes up the cause - What to call those averse to commitment
Posted By: ricksteroni      1/7/2013 6:42:17 AM
Brutally Honest, by Rick
Original Article

More particularly, those who´d rather shack up than marry: “I went through a phase of just calling him Eric, even to people who didn’t know who that was,” said the master wordsmith Ann Kjellberg, 50, editor of the journal Little Star and the literary executor of the poet Joseph Brodsky. Eric Zerof spent 15 years as her live-in not-spouse and is the father of Ms. Kjellberg’s child. “I kept thinking, ‘This should not be this hard!’ I was very unhappy about the situation. I could never find a word I liked.”