What is a relationship?

[Catwoman]

Originally Posted by jaguar

gah don't scare me like that! It's kind of hard to avoid the whole label thing, someone asks you, your answer may be nuanced but 99/100 times it'll be concacanated to the nearest term, girlfriend, 'seeing each other', friend, fuckbuddy..... Girlfriend in partiuclar irks the hell out of me. How much does it matter though? The real connections, the boundries, the truth] of the matter are usually unspoken and almost always elude articulation, it's a set of things you just know and feel.

Yes, true, but the more words/labels/images we apply to ourselves the more difficult it is to see the 'unspoken' reality. We condition ourselves away from the very thing we are here to find out. Madness, really. Also the 'nearest term' might be completely inaccurate, like when you play snooker after pool and realise your angles were actually way off because there's less room for error.