More than a girlfriend, less than a partner.

That‘s how the main character of “The Ghost” described his relationship. He complained that there wasn’t a word for it. Well dear, we have three languages to search and couldn’t find a suitable word either.

Martin once thought it was very funny to introduce me as his “current” girlfriend. Ha-Ha. No comments.

However, partner is a terrible word. It triggers the same chain of thoughts in most people. “Are you gay? Aha. Then, why don’t you marry?” Moreover, to be a partner as such, I think you should be registered and introducing Martin as my “unregistered” partner could be fun for just a while.

The main problem is that even if we find the right description it would be just that, a description, rather than a word. It ranges from weird to pathetic to call somebody flatmate with benefits, genetic material supply, alternative to celibacy, or long term investment, even when all those things are true.

So the problem stays unsolved. We are damned to keep on defining each other with more or less creative descriptions and hoping for the best. The movie, by the way, great. My regular cinema companion and I enjoyed it a lot.