Collocations Related to Relationship
- When you move to a new city, it can be hard to make friends.
- You’ll probably have a number of casual acquaintances – people who you know on a basic level, but with whom you don’t have a significant relationship.
- Over time, some of these may become good friends or close friends – these collocations refer to friends with whom you have an especially strong relationship.
- Do you believe in love at first sight? That’s when two people meet each other and immediately fall in love – perhaps because they have strong chemistry – this expression describes strong compatibility or connection between two possible romantic partners.
- Some people believe that their significant other (their boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, or wife) is their soul mate – this is a poetic expression that means that two people are destined to be together.
- It’s possible for one person to have feelings for another person – this expression is an indirect way to describe romantic feelings – but if the other person doesn’t feel the same way, then the feeling is not mutual.
- The other person might say “he’s/she’s just not my type” – meaning that they are interested in people of a different type of personality/appearance.
- Ah, there’s nothing sadder than unrequited love! (Love that is not returned)
- Some people marry their childhood sweetheart or high school/college sweetheart – this expression refers to a boyfriend or girlfriend from your childhood, teenage, or college years.
- Other couples are introduced by a mutual friend – one friend that the two people have in common.
- When the couple is ready to make a commitment, the man proposes to the woman – he asks her to marry him.
- If the marriage is good, then we say the couple is happily married.
- Unfortunately, not all love stories have a happy ending.
- The expression “have an affair” is typically used only for married couples, and the expression “cheating on” can be used for married couples or for boyfriends/girlfriends.