On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 01:29:03PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > "ongoing emotional/sexual entanglement". A one-night stand is not a > relationship. Being married for 20 years is a relationship. Being > engaged is a relationship even if you haven't gotten into sex yet. So > "lover" isn't right (and is still Too Much Information in many > contexts), "fiancee" is wrong these days, "significant other" means > close to the same thing but is longer. 'consort' would be a useful noun, even doubling as a verb. But then people think you're pretending to be royalty. -xx- Damien X-)