what is the difference between a flirtationship and just a fun friendship?

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1. The flirting part.

2. What is a flirtationship?

3. Flirting.

4. Oh god, these new terms… I’d say you’re either in a relationship or not. It’s better to call it just flirting.

   The main difference is your intentions. If someone flirts with you in a romantic way and makes some moves, it’s flirting that has a chance to develop into sth bigger. If you flirt just for fun, it’s friendship.

5. To me, it’s whether you are friends and flirt together or not. If it’s all flirting/innuendo and no real friendship, then it’s just about flirting. If it includes a friendship, it can be a flirty friendship. I don’t consider a “flirtationship” a real thing.

6. The difference is flirtationship is just another made up pointless label to slap on things and confused people

7. For me, if there is sexual attraction, it’s flirting. This is really hard to do with a female/male friendship. (Given this is a hetero relationship) I’m not saying it’s impossible, but most likely one or the other would jump the bones of the other if given the chance. It’s rare.
   Most relationships start after the “friendship”. This is why. Continuing to flirt, while there is attraction, will eventually lead to more flirtatious touching and sexual feelings. It is just commonplace.
   This is why they portray those “we’ve been friends since we kids! She’s like my sister/brother! I’d never!”- while they push each other around playfully, Type relationships. If you are in NOWAY attracted to this friend, meaning I’d they earnestly made a move on you, and you would decline, and it’s the same the other way around, I think you’re ok. But if there is even a smidgen of “well maybe…”- it’s flirting.
   That’s my hot take.

8. i have no idea, i’m clueless with things like that

9. I make cheerfully sexual comments to all of my friends so these are the same picture.

10. I dunno. They’re the same to me🙃

11. Sexual tension and any type of touching that confirms these feelings

12. The intention.

13. Flirtation ship is not a real thing. That’s just a dumb label made up by teenagers that allows them to make the friendship seem like more than it is.

14. I’ve never heard of flirtationship, but I’m guessing it’s like friendship but you also flirt with each other and maybe even fool around sexually? No clue, but that is something I do with some of my friends.

15. You flirt in one of them and you don’t in the other. Tf lmao