Are you in a "Fake-lationship"?

Once again, there was an interesting topic discussed on the radio. This time it was about relationships that aren't quite relationships.

Make sense yet? Let me elaborate.

We surround ourselves by different types of relationships whether it's with our friends, family, significant others...BUT there is one that many don't know what to call.

"The Fake-lationship."

Fake-lationship(n)- Relationship between two people of the opposite sex that is purely friendly. They appear like they may be romantically involved because they do things couples may do, spends lots of time together, but no hooking up goes on.

Usually people in fake-lationships fail to see they are in one, until their friends make it a point to bring it up and ask if something is going on with their fellow fake-lationship-er.

I would know this firsthand because I've been in a few fake-lationships. I tend to get closer to my male friends and thus comes the development of my fake-lationships.

Now, some may confuse a fake-lationship with a friends-with- benefits kind of partnership, but get it straight, it's not. A fake-lationship is an innocent friendship between the two people where nothing sexual or romantic goes on.

In some situations a fake-lationship may result in more than just friends, in other cases it does take the friends-with-benefits road, and in some scenarios it may just stay the same until one or the other meets a romantic interest.

In my case, I am currently in a relationship that derived from a fake-lationship. Which is why hearing about the topic sounded eerily familiar. I remember our friends always questioning us if something was going on or they'd predict that something was going to merge from our friendship. Lo and behold they were right lol.

I guess this also pertains to the idea that Mr/Mrs. Right is right under your nose, but you're too blind to see it. They say relationships stemmed from friendship are usually the best ones...and I am a believer in that, but everyone is different.

Fake-lationships aren't necessarily bad, in fact they are probably good to have because they prepare you for when you're in an actual relationship.

And who knows, maybe by some crazy act of fate, that buddy of yours might be just who you're looking for ;-)