Re: [UUPoly-L] We Need a word.......

["Dorothy Krause" <dorothyk@charter.net>]

I've got a few "intimate friends" around here and there that fit that
category. That term suits me pretty well, and, if it's not clear enough
I just spell it out as "intimate friends/lovers". (verbalized as friends
slash lovers)

Dorothy

On 6/1/2007 4:09:48 PM, Ken Haslam (haslamk@gmail.com) wrote:
> This is from a friend looking for a word to describe one of those less
> well defined Poly relationships.   I have "partners" who fit this
> description and do not know how to describe them.  They are closer 
> than "friends" because we might or might not have sex but live 
> independent lives (often a great distances from me) and I might see 
> them once or twice a year.  Yet when I see them I am welcomed into 
> their home and into their bed and the relationship just takes up where

> it left off the last time we parted.  Do we have a word that works? 
> Here is her question>
> 
> "a word or
> phrase that aptly fits a special person you spend time with who is a 
> current or past lover, good friend, a person you love, not a 
> "boyfriend" or "girlfriend" and who you are not in a "committed" 
> relationship with." The writer isn't a fan of "f***buddy" or "friend 
> w/benefits", and "lover" doesn't
> seem to cover it and "sweetie" doesn't quite do it
> either.
> 
> Ken Haslam