Excellent post lizzard lady!!!! Having a discussion/expressing concerns and attempts to reach compromise is a foundation for a healthy relationship and isn’t the same as telling your partner what to do. Simply leaving without any discussion would be rather drastic unless of course there is more to the story. Or if she is afraid to discuss issues, which is a bad sign all in itself.

I think she might mean just someone she lives with when she says “common law partner”. One cannot be considered (legally speaking) common law partner after only 6 months. Sometimes people don’t show true colors until one moves in.