text, un: birdinthehand

[chichichi]

[ It's in the fading hours of the night that this particular text message graces the network. Well, if by "graces" it's meant that this text nearly a month in the making is suddenly, rapidly thrown together and retyped over the course of a few restless hours leading to this. ​]

Lightning-kun, you aren't allowed to weigh in.

[ And having lead with that -- ]

How do you define the term 'boyfriend'? How should it be defined?

There's been some confusion about it lately. I'm simply looking for clarification, that's all.

[ Emphasis on the "that's all," not that such things are necessarily perceived through text, and that suits one Setsura Light just fine. ]

Comments

[chichichi]

Humans, hm? How great of a hoop have you seen them jump through, I wonder?

[chichichi]

I never said I was the person confused, but I welcome feedback all the same. How would you define the term?

[overlies]

I apologize for the presumption, then. It seems odd to ask for a friend if you didn’t know how to explain it yourself. Unless you’re trying to prove a point to a stubborn head?

In any case, the term “boyfriend” is ample and highly dependent from person to person. Some may say he is only a friend, while others will casually consider it dating to a relationship far more serious. All of them, at least, walk along the lines of intimacy, in one way or another.

How would you define it?

[dreamvour]

i've been watching since my creation so
it's a pretty big hoop

[jc_superstar]

What's wrong with literal? I ensures there's no confusion. If you're looking for a more appropriate term for lover, there is always betrothed.

[lightningruins]

ur 2 particular re: contracts

[chichichi]

There is no such thing.

1/idk oh my god

[chichichi]

[ Betrothed to Chuuya and A -- ]

2/idk pls hold

[chichichi]

Absolutely not! It isn't like that at all!

3/3

[chichichi]

[ Maybe give her five minutes to stop literally hopping around and rivaling a tomato in shade. Thank goodness she opted for text over video or voice. Somewhere nearby, a mother covers her child's ears to shield them from some of the most gangster punk speech to grace the area. ]

That's an incredibly significant jump and distinction. Don't you have any middle ground?

[chichichi]

"Stubborn head" is a very polite way of putting it. Too polite. You're welcome to make other inferences.

As for myself, I've always considered "boyfriend" and "girlfriend" terms that infer something mutually agreed upon and officially established that references a romance rather than something simply physical in the same way two people dating is different than two people hooking up or a friends with benefits type of relationship.

It's different.

[chichichi]

[ She's decided. She's going to pet him next time she sees him. ]

[acutabove]

[ please do he's been a very good boy miss setsura ]

[chichichi]

They're fascinating, aren't they?

I introduce to you, Madam Yu's son~

[jc_superstar]

Perhaps.

Bedwarmer is one of the more delicate distinctions if one wishes to remain unwed.

[lightningruins]

r u this careful w/ all ur boyfriends?

[anthropophagite]

I think it's all about how each person feels.

[brightred]

I might be a LITTLE old-fashioned but if they're all your lovers there's no shame in THAT.

[chichichi]

[ Okay. She's missing something here. ]

Who said anything about being ashamed? I don't have anything to be ashamed of.

[ It's just sex?? ... disregarding the fact that the accusation regarding certain people has garnered less casual responses. They aren't her boyfriends. ]

i love him, thank you

[chichichi]

[ ... ]

And if you're already married?

[chichichi]

[ ... ]

How so?

[chichichi]

You are my husband and I do not have any boyfriends. No one has so much as expressed the slightest bit of romantic interest in me in your absence.

Drop it.

Here all day with arrogant prickdom!

[jc_superstar]

Adulterer.

[anthropophagite]

Feelings are complicated. Sometimes being "sex friends" is enough, sometimes it's not. Sometimes you want more, sometimes you want less. Each person should explain how they feel in a relationship, regardless of what sort of name you give that relationship.

[overlies]

It's all under the same umbrella for you acquaintance?