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Broad classification for relationships & dating.
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Using vague, softened language to describe a relationship dynamic that is, in reality, straightforwardly unsuccessful.
Read full entry →A small but genuinely touching instance where a partner's knowledge of your taste translates flawlessly into a menu choice.
Read full entry →The protective, slightly proud act of proofreading a partner's messages before they go out to friends or family.
Read full entry →Habitually characterising every past partner as unreasonable, without acknowledging any personal responsibility whatsoever.
Read full entry →An unspoken, simultaneous decision by two people on a date that it should end well before the planned hour is up.
Read full entry →The last-minute, exam-style revision of a date's dating profile to avoid asking a question they've already answered.
Read full entry →A perfectly, cruelly timed piece of software maintenance that guarantees maximum disruption at the worst possible moment.
Read full entry →Fiercely, unreasonably loyal to a local establishment with essentially no comparative evidence to back it up.
Read full entry →A once-dominant meme template now deployed unironically, appreciated purely for its historical significance rather than freshness.
Read full entry →Radiating a level of social energy that is genuinely lovely but occasionally too much for a Tuesday.
Read full entry →An enduring, low-level tension between two partners with fundamentally incompatible relationships to time.
Read full entry →The quiet, internal critique of a partner's driving decisions, expressed only through subtle winces and gripped armrests.
Read full entry →A close friendship maintained primarily through relentless, affectionate insults rather than open sincerity.
Read full entry →A quietly domestic sign of closeness in which partners intuitively anticipate each other's household needs.
Read full entry →Having received supportive gestures made up exclusively of unrelated, mildly funny internet images.
Read full entry →An apparently long-settled disagreement that reappears in conversation with startling, unexpected precision.
Read full entry →An extended, repeatedly interrupted farewell ritual that never quite manages to end with an actual exit.
Read full entry →Consumed with missionary-level enthusiasm about a recently adopted interest, to the exhaustion of everyone nearby.
Read full entry →Willing to sit through significant personal tedium purely out of devotion to a partner's viewing preferences.
Read full entry →A significant, unspoken threshold of intimacy reached in a long-term relationship marked by bodily comfort.
Read full entry →The uncertain social status of a relationship too formal for a casual cancellation and too casual for total honesty.
Read full entry →A well-meaning but entirely inaccurate compliment delivered by an elderly relative regardless of physical reality.
Read full entry →Sincere-sounding but entirely hollow; loaded with warmth that carries no actual intention behind it.
Read full entry →A rare, pleasant deviation from the national expectation that all queues will move at a glacial, soul-crushing pace.
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