misses / missus / mrs. are similar-sounding terms with different meanings (referred to as homophones). To better understand the differences, see below for definitions, pronunciation guides, and example sentences using each term. 👇 Definitions Do you know of any gender-neutral alternatives to saying Mr. or Mrs.? Learn about it here. When should Ms. and Miss be used?

Happens (in a loosest sense) in the Firefly episode Trash. YoSafBridge is currently married to Monty when the pair of them encounter Monty's war buddy Malcolm Reynolds, whom she had previously married. Like most The Missus and the Ex scenarios, this doesn't work out well for her, however in this case it's because her marriage to Mal was part of a scam and all logic suggests she's pulling some sort of con on Monty as well. She's clever enough to realize immediately that her feminine wiles, however considerable, will also be entirely useless against the " War Buddy" brand of loyalty that Mal and Monty have towards each other, and immediately resorts to pulling a gun. As the above is not complicated enough, right before starting to go out with Ramona Scott is dating recurring character Knives Chau, his earlier ex Kim Pine plays in the same band as Scott, and Envy Adams, the one whose break-up with Scott left him devastated, is now dating one of the Evil Exes and was just as devastated as Scott by the break-up, she just hid it better and got On the Rebound faster. Historically, the title Miss has been used as an honorific for unmarried women or young girls. While both of these cases are still true today, Miss is also used to refer to women when their marital status is unknown or unimportant. Helen: I don't understand you. No matter what you say. If Kane was my man, I'd never leave him like this. I'd get a gun. I'd fight.

J'onn: Difficult as it may be for you to believe, I don't take your love life into consideration when I make command decisions. In " Galaxy's Child", Geordi has a truly unique case as both the Missus and the Ex are the same person; one is the holographic counterpart of Dr. Leah Brahms from the earlier episode "Booby Trap", the other is the actual Leah. Things get very tense when the real Leah finds the holographic Leah repeating the earlier episode's closing lines " Every time you look at this engine, you're looking at me. Every time you touch it, it's me.", and accuses Geordi of being a Stalker with a Crush. Gibbs is none too pleased, as usual, when ex-wife Diane shows up at a crime scene, even moreso when another ex-wife joins her, and looks flat-out horrified at the realization that the two are friends. An episode has Lilith Crane tangling with Frasier's first wife, children's entertainer Nanny Gee ( Emma Thompson).

Guys Being Dudes: Arlo runs into this situation on Go Fest Day 2, with Spark as the Missus and Candela as the Ex, in a variant in which the Missus and the Ex were already friends and coworkers without his involvement. This happened in the Dream On episode "Three Coins in the Dryer". Martin imagined all kinds of craziness about them viciously fighting each other. It turned out that they were indeed rather awkward and uncomfortable with each other, but perfectly nice to each other. Martin's ex-wife only reacted with a friendly detached amusement that they had so obviously been having sex. Father of the Bride: There's apparent tension between Hernan's first wife Marcela and his much-younger second wife Julieta. Subverted in that they get along swimmingly at Sofia's bachelorette party. When Ingrid says she thought they hated each other, Marcela and Julieta say they just pretend to hate each other for Hernan's benefit. Happened on The X-Files, though it encompassed a season and a half instead of just an episode. And while Mulder and Scully were not a couple at the time, when Mulder's ex-partner and ex-lover shows up and tries to steal him away, Scully does not take kindly to that. It doesn't help that the ex-partner is evil, and in cahoots with Mulder and Scully's arch-nemesis. Mulder ditches Scully several times for Fowley, and ignores all evidence pointing to the fact that she's evil. Seeing Scully's claws come out, though, made it all worth it. Please stay safe and well during these troubling times. In the meantime, feel free to explore and enjoy my online home.

In Kyle Rayner's Green Lantern run, his ex-girlfriend, Donna Troy, showed up at his art gallery showing, leading to tensions between Kyle and then-girlfriend Jade. (Donna and Jade, when they both became Kyle's exes, eventually went on to be teammates in the Outsiders and the Justice League... with further ramifications whenever Kyle enters the mix.) thrown, having been thrown, hurled, having been hurled, cast, having been cast, launched, having been launched In Stepmom, while the title character and her husband's ex-wife initially don't get along, things get better bit by bit. And when the ex-wife learns she's terminally ill, she realizes that she really needs to improve her attitude so as to teach the new wife to be a good mother to her kids. Generally speaking, it is considered proper etiquette to use Mrs. to refer to married women, Miss to refer to unmarried women and young girls, and Ms. to refer to a woman of unknown marital status or when marital status is irrelevant. I’m E L James, the author of The Mister and the Fifty Shades Trilogy and its companion novels Grey, Darker and Freed. I'm delighted to announce that the sequel to The Mister will be published on 20th June 2023. Called The Missus it continues Maxim and Alessia's love story. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

WandaVision: Agnes (in reality, Agatha Harkness) lampshades it in the finale when Wanda is saved from White Vision's attempt on her life by her Hex recreation of Vision. In Two and a Half Men Alan's young, hot girlfriend Kandi starts complaining about him to his ex-wife Judith. They go out, get drunk, and Kandi moves in with Judith. In the next episode it gets worse, or at least weirder. But can a reformed rake like Maxim ever make a good husband ― or will his own notorious reputation and the scandalous secrets of his aristocratic family destroy his newfound happiness? Dorothy's Vitriolic Best Bud Elanor having an online friendship with Bentley, irritates Dorothy to no end. On the flip side, when Bentley learns they talk about him, he decides he's better off in prison. In Leverage, we have Sophie and Maggie, with the writers/producers referencing the trope by name in at least one audio commentary in the season four episode "The Last Dam Job". Interestingly, they also tease the idea of Maggie and Sophie being involved when Nate isn't around.After MJ and Peter broke up, she got on very well with Carlie Cooper. When Carlie learnt Pete's secret identity, they settled down to a chat about it, leading Peter - who was nowhere nearby - to suddenly realise his "Peter Parker sense" was tingling. In the song "Trubbel" ( Trouble) by Swedish songwriter Olle Adolphson, this pattern is combined with class issues. Working-class A and B are happy together, but then B has an affair with middle-class C. A is naturally upset, but then finds out that B has already been dumped by C. A finds this unforgivable and goes to visit C with a hammer hidden in the coat. However, C turns out to be a genuinely nice person, courteous and friendly, and A is just as charmed as B had been. A and B decide to settle for each other and for being lower-class people. The reason for the ABC routine here is that the lyrics are cleverly written to be not only fairly timeless, but also (with very slight changes) applicable to either gender combination note non-heterosexual variants should be possible but are yet unseen. In the original lyrics, A and C are males; in the most well-known cover they are females. A Gender Flipped version on The Wire. In the first two seasons, McNulty and Rhonda are Friends with Benefits - well, at least according to McNulty, anyway; Rhonda, not so much, though she does sleep with him - until Rhonda gets tired of it and dumps him. In the third season, Rhonda gets involved with Daniels, and McNulty finds this out when he comes over to Rhonda's place one night, drunk, and she doesn't answer because she's with Daniels. McNulty and Daniels go to a bar later, and when Daniels tries to apologize, McNulty shrugs it off and says he wishes them both the best. It also becomes an interesting inversion, because while the two of them eventually come into conflict later that season, it has nothing to do with Rhonda, but with McNulty's Cowboy Cop mentality.