Re: [UUPoly-L] AH!...I get the question nowWe Need a word.......

[Ally <polyfamally@gmail.com>]

I also really don't like this (relatively) new "friends with benefits"
term.  I always used "repeat offender" to indicate the friends I repeatedly
fell into bed with.  Though I suspect this is not PC enough to fly
globally...

Ally


On 6/1/07, Tara_Affinity <tara_affinity@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Really, I think I might use "intimate friend".
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Ken Haslam <haslamk@gmail.com>
> To: UU Poly <uupoly-l@uupa.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 1, 2007 5:09:48 PM
> Subject: [UUPoly-L] We Need a word.......
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> 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
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