It sickens me whenever people use this term because it's just confusing. I'm almost always left scratching my head whenever people use this completely nebulous and useless relationship term. I'm then usually forced to go look up to see who the person's "partner" is just to make sure I'm not supporting a faggot content creator.

You can always tell the people who are converged versus those who are not. The converged talk about their boyfriend/girlfriend in these opaque terms, which lets you know there is nothing serious about their relationship other than the person being there as a form of comfort to compensate for their loneliness. The right kind of people get married because they have long term goals and plan on attempting to sustain or proliferate their lineage, and these people refer to their significant other as their husband/wife, which is how it should be.