So You’re In A Relationship – Are You Sure?
Other than love, there's probably no word more misunderstood and misused than the word "relationship." Ask several people what the word means to them and you're not likely to get the same answer. When I was a kid knowing the definition of the word relationship was simple. Although we didn't use a big word, as kids we had a formal understanding of what exclusivity meant. There was the old custom of asking a girl to be your girlfriend. "Will you be my girlfriend" was something you'd stammer in a nervous question after school. Or you'd go the written route and nervously scribble a note and rewrite it three or four times.
A few years later in high school things got a little more complicated. Where I grew up there were two definitions of a relationship in high school. One was, "were just frien...
