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en-wikipedia-org-1642		Significant other - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1018	154	54	Significant other (SO) is colloquially used as a term for a person's partner in an intimate relationship[1] without disclosing or presuming anything about marital status, relationship status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. This use of the term has become common in the UK in correspondence from hospitals, e.g., "you may be accompanied for your appointment by a significant other."[citation needed] The first known use of the term is by the U.S. psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan in the article 'Conceptions of Modern Psychiatry' in the journal: 'Psychiatry: Journal of the biology and pathology of interpersonal relations', published in 1940.[4] The phrase was popularised in the United States by Armistead Maupin's 1987 book Significant Others, and in the UK by the 1989 TV series Only Fools and Horses, in which Derek Trotter uses the phrase a number of times when referring to his long-term partner Raquel Turner.[5]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1642.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1642.txt