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38 results for “loving two people”
Experiences
- Love bombingOverwhelming affection early on, used to establish control.Internet or community term
- Mamihlapinatapaimah-mee-lah-pin-yah-tah-PIEA look shared by two people, each wishing the other would begin what both desire and neither will start.Established linguistic term
- Philotimofee-LO-tee-moThe duty to act honourably toward one's people, felt as love rather than obligation.Cultural concept
- Abhimaanuh-bhee-MAANWounded pride toward someone you love, expressed as withdrawal.Established linguistic term
- Amor fatiAH-mor FAH-teeLoving your fate, including the parts you would not have chosen.Literary term
- Coup de foudrekoo duh FOOD-ruhLove at first sight — literally a lightning strike.Established linguistic term
- Forelsketfor-EL-sketThe euphoria of beginning to fall in love.Established linguistic term
- IshqISHKConsuming love, of a kind that reorganises the person feeling it.Established linguistic term
- JeongJUNGThe slow, binding affection that accumulates between people over years.Established linguistic term
- Koi No Yokankoy no yo-KAHNThe sense on first meeting someone that falling in love with them is inevitable.Cultural concept
- Loud SilenceA pause in conversation that both people are actively filling with thought.The Human Diary editorial term
- NazNAAZThe pride and ease of one who knows they are loved unconditionally — and the sweet demands they make because of it.Established linguistic term
- Razbliutoraz-blee-OO-tohThe feeling for someone you once loved and no longer do — the memory of the emotion, without the emotion.Informal expression
- Self-expansionThe way falling in love enlarges your sense of who you could be.Established psychological concept
- Sympathetic RestlessnessBeing unable to settle because someone you love is unsettled.The Human Diary editorial term
- The Courtesy GapThe moment politeness replaces intimacy, and both people notice and say nothing.The Human Diary editorial term
- The Preferred VersionBeing loved for a self you performed early and now cannot retire.The Human Diary editorial term
- Virahavi-RUH-huhThe love that only becomes fully known through separation.Established linguistic term
Stories
- Love bombingThe Best Six WeeksEveryone kept asking when it started going wrong, and Nadia kept saying month five, and that was the wrong answer, and it took her two years to work out why.4 min read
- The Kind LieIt Was LovelyThe painting was not good.4 min read
- The Courtesy GapThank You for the TeaThe marriage ended, as far as Beth could ever determine afterwards, on a Thursday in February, when Adam said thank you for the tea.3 min read
- Mere exposure effectThe 07:42On the first morning Yusra thought he had an unfortunate face.3 min read
- CompersionThe Third CupThe first time, Priya was sick.4 min read
- Symmetry AnxietyThe ScoreboardNine minutes.4 min read
- VirahaFour and a Half HoursThe time difference was four and a half hours, which is a stupid number, which is a number designed by a committee that hated lovers.4 min read
- HiraethThe House That Isn't ThereThe village had a website now. Priya found it at two in the morning, the way you find things at two in the morning, and there was a photograph of the lane taken from roughly where the bus used to stop.4 min read
- Spotlight effectNobody SawThe presentation was on a Thursday and Ife said "the fourth quarter" when she meant "the third," and corrected herself within two seconds, and then thought about it for four years.3 min read
- Parasocial attachmentHe Does Not Know I ExistShe has listened to eleven hundred hours of a man talking and has never met him.3 min read
- KiligThe Group Chat Has NotesJOY: he said WHAT3 min read
- Mono no awareThe Last Week of the ShopThe lease ended on the thirtieth, and Hana had known since March, and had told almost nobody, because telling people turns a thing into an event and she had wanted the last months to stay ordinary.4 min read
- MyötähäpeäThe Karaoke MachineThere is a video and Eero has never watched it.3 min read
- NazThe TermsThe rule was that he made the tea.3 min read
- BasorexiaThe Last of the DishesThe guests had left the way guests do, in threes and then twos, and now it was only Maya and Daniel and a sink full of glasses that had held eight different wines.4 min read
- RetrouvaillesRe-findingsEveryone tells you about the airport. Nobody tells you about the Tuesday.4 min read
- SchadenfreudeThe RestructureThe email went round at 11:04 and Amara read it twice and then had to go and stand in the stairwell.3 min read
- Coup de foudreThe Nine SecondsHe was buying a lightbulb.4 min read
- FrissonEight BarsThe rehearsal room was too hot and had been since October, when the caretaker had done something to the heating that he described as sorting it and that had in fact welded the building into a permanent August.4 min read
- WeltschmerzThe Weight of the WorldAt nineteen, Lukas gave up meat, flying, and his father.3 min read