romantic entanglement

romantic entanglement
   a sexual relationship
   Often more sordid than romantic, and as romantic affair or relationship
    Half of fashionable London has its ... romantic entanglements. (Flanagan, 1988, writing of the 19th century)
   And naturally everyone understands that [Congressman Gary Condit] lied because he wanted 'to protect his family'. If he had a romantic relationship, that's his business. {Sunday Telegraph, 15 July 2001)
   To be romantically linked can imply anything from demure heterosexual courtship to homosexual activity:
    His younger son, Lord Alfred Douglas, was, as they say, romantically linked to Oscar Wilde. (Parris, 1995)
   See also romance.

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