Savannah James Explains Why She Doesn’t Like the Term ‘Wifey’: ‘I Had to Politely Tell My Husband Back in the Day’

On an episode of the Everybody’s Crazy podcast shared earlier this month, the 37-year-old entrepreneur along with co-host April McDaniel took a call from a listener who found herself in a love triangle between a man she’s been dating and her “sneaky link.”

While both hosts agreed that the caller should stay single until she figures out exactly what she wants, the women couldn’t help but ruminate over the difference between a “sneaky link” and a “side chick” before their producer broke it down for them.

“A sneaky link is somebody that you know you sneaking with,” the producer explained off-camera at the 18:44 mark in the video above. “But your side chick—the majority of the time your main girl know about the side chick.”

“I don't even want to be the main chick,” explained McDaniel. “I need to be the wife these days. I don't want to be the ‘wifey.’ I don't want to be nothing. I want to be the wife.”

“When I tell you I hate, loathe ‘wifey’ with my whole entire soul,” said James, who is married to LeBron James, 39. “I'm sorry, don't call me your wife and I'm not.”

She continued, “I had to politely tell my husband back in the day. He used to introduce me, ‘This is my wife.’ I had to pull him to the side like, ‘Excuse me, sir, don't introduce me as that please. I am not your wife, and I deserve that title when the time is right.’”

“I don't want you to start to think that it's okay for you to say this and then, you know, means don’t have to go the next step,” she added.

On the other hand, McDaniel, 43, lamented about how to introduce certain individuals past a certain age, saying that terms like “boyfriend” sound crazy. While the jury is out for “my man,” McDaniel feels that “my partner” makes her sound “like I’m a lesbian.”

“I feel like it's tiers,” James conceded. “You have to start at the bottom and then come up.”

“One of these days we have to go live so we can ask people live like, what is the titles? Because I'm very intrigued by knowing what are the titles people go by and what feels ‘premium.’ Because I want the premium title,” McDaniel said.