Looking at relationships from a distance is an interesting hobby. Kind of like bird watching. I can identify the creature I am looking at, tell you it’s main characteristics and even give you a name.
What I cannot do is tell you what it is thinking, but then that is what the word relationship is all about. In any sort of relationship there is communication. How much communication describes the intensity of the relationship.
Acquaintances - recognize each other by some trait that is common to both. There are passing acquaintances, nodding ones, or perhaps simply fly bys. They just know each other enough to acknowledge they both exist.
Friends - may be somewhat a like, or even totally different species. They just have an affinity for each other.
Pairs - are sometimes so close they can’t tell the difference. One may think the other is just a reflection of him, or herself.
Birds of a feather - not only flock together, they think alike, have similar characteristics, but still stay far enough apart to recognize each other’s individuality.
That last group is hard to describe. Their differences are often huge and their similarities obscure things that birds of another feather might not even comprehend.
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