How to refer to your family’s out-laws

Dr Brigid Purcell suggests referring to your children’s unmarried partners as ‘daughters-in-love’ or ‘sons-in-love’. Photograph: gradyreese/Getty Images

I have friends who refer to their children’s unmarried partners as their “daughters-in-love” or “sons-in-love” (Letters, 6 September). It’s affectionate and not as twee as it sounds.
Dr Brigid Purcell
Norwich

• The quandary is easily solved here in Scotland by the widely used and understood phrase “bidie-in”.
Rosemary Goodman
St Andrews, Fife