All the time in middle school and high school, I’ve heard, for example, “My girlfriend doesn’t like that I do X” or “My wife and I did X this weekend”, and since the teacher is a man, it’s seen as acceptable.
Would casually mentioning having a girlfriend cause angry emails from parents, even if I’m not discussing forms of romantic attraction in schools? These kids are like 11-14 anyway, parents’ job to teach orientation (which I’ve heard argued) or not.
Also, we learn relationship descriptions in middle school Spanish if you choose to take it, which includes words like novio, novia, esposo, and esposa. (Shouldn’t matter, especially if the school I teach in is at a non-Conservative community)
Yeah this is the way. Don’t let students know anything about your private life.
On the other hand, give hypothetical examples of both ways, e.g., “if I was going to the movies with my girlfriend, I would say…”
Or “if I was going see my boyfriend later, I would say…”
On the other hand, there are probably better ways to teach novio/esposo etc without making it about you, even hypothetically.