Relationship Overlap

A fair while back a shitstorm blew up on QOTW regarding Kiss.Me.Where.I.Poo's revenge on his girlfriend of 8 years who he'd found cheating on him. It involved chilli and a vibrator as I recall.

During the heated debate that followed some dizzy bint referred to the cheating as "relationship overlap" and I blew a minor gasket.

There's no such thing as "relationship overlap". It's cheating, two-timing, infidelity, playing away from home. There's a hundred more phrases to describe one partner playing hide-the-sausage, without the others knowledge, but I will not accept the breath-taking euphemism of "relationship overlap."

Call it like it is and don't try and dress up one of life's ultimate betrayals with some twee phrase that sounds as if it comes from a sociology textbook. It's like Sellafield referring to a radiation leak as "an escape of magic moon-beams".

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:11, 9 replies)

Yes

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:13, closed)

This gets a clickie.

( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:19, closed)

I should be in agreement with this
but relationship overlap entirely sums up what happened when I was splitting with the ex and getting together with the current mrs V.

I wasn't doing anything with either of them at the time, just allowing us all to finish our degrees with the minimum of upset.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:26, closed)

That's Harsh

But, if you weren't sleeping with either one, then it's no penalty. Maybe a free-kick but difficult to call.

It's always hard when one relationship ends. But you have to have some respect for your soon-to-be-ex and at least break up with them before shagging someone new. Sometimes your current situation makes that difficult.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:33, closed)

it was difficult
as I was living with my ex, and studying with the current.

I went kind of mental.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 17:06, closed)

It sounds like something awfully po-faced
from some American sit-com like Friends.

Gawd.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:31, closed)

Many thanks
Mostly for reminding me of KMWIP's blowing up the kitchen story
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:33, closed)

this

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:48, closed)

To be fair, I've not heard the phrase used outside that particular discourse.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 21:26, closed)