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I've gone out to dinner with my mother and long-term friends, but I'm not dating any of them. Sometimes eating is just eating.
by Broken_Hippo 4y ago
I've gone out to dinner with my mother and long-term friends, but I'm not dating any of them. Sometimes eating is just eating.
- oneoff786 4y agoEmphasis on with your steady partner
- Broken_Hippo 4y agoMy steady partner is a long-term friend. Not everything is sexual or dating just because we are, in fact, in a relationship that includes sex. Sometimes eating is just eating.
- oneoff786 4y agoGoing steady is commonly understood to mean a long term , serious romantic relationship Being obtuse and choosing obscure definitions of terms to win points on technicalities isn’t clever, it’s childish
- Broken_Hippo 4y agoI do know what it means. That doesn't mean that everything done while in that relationship has anything to do with romance. Sometimes eating is just eating. This isn't making up definitions. It is acknowledging there is a vast difference to what folks call "date night" and stopping to eat on the way home from a destination. Sometimes eating is just eating. Calling me childish for having that view seems childish in itself. I'm simply not romanticising everything.
- oneoff786 4y agoSemantic arguments are childish
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