Relationships

Types of relationships

A casual acquaintance: a person you have met but you don’t know well.
Mate: is used in compound nouns to describe a person you share something with.
Housemate: a person with whom you share a house.
Ex: can be used without (informally) or with another word (eg Ex-girlfriend, ex-husband,).
Steady: fixed and not changing suddenly.
Partner: partner is used for someone you live with but are not married to or for a business relationship where you share the ownership or running of a company.
Parents-in-law: the parents of your husband or wife.

Friends: people you share personal information with.
Accept a new friend: by accepting new friends you add them to your network.
To interact: exchange messaging or posting comments on your friends’ page.
To unfriend / defriend a person: you want to finish the relationship with that person.

To get on well with someone: have a good relationship.
Don’t see eye to eye: often argue/disagree.
To fall out with someone: have arguments with someone.
To have an affair with someone: generally a sexual relationship, usually secret.
Let’s try and make it up: be friends again after a row / quarrel.
To see each other: meeting and spending time together.
They met at a party and got together: started a romantic relationship.

To make friends (NOT to get friends).

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