Fating

When you carve out time for a person and use your dating status towards a greater purpose and cause - fake + dating, purely so you can have time with each other through being very popular and having a very full social life, i.e. things like doing errands, babysitting together, taking each other off of the market to fend off toxic masculinity and toxic feminity at bars and the pub, especially in the circumstance where either one or both person's partner is dead, missing in action, too young to date or just otherwise wants you to spend time with them, maybe even in their stead. It's also a relationship that is openly known to the public, and to society. Ironic for superstitious people who talk about the fates aligning in a sense where they're so psychotic you don't even get to hang out with your friends.

Amelia and I are fating because that's how bad it got but, you know, I love spending time with her.