Lost in Translation...

I'm eternally grateful that polyamorists have created or popularized a lot of terms to describe common experiences such as feeling joy at seeing your partner happy in another relationship (compersion), societal pressure to follow a specific progression or series of milestones for a relationship to be considered Serious (the relationship escalator), and a partner of your partner (metamour).

sorry i have to get on my soapbox bc the term fluid bonding is so regressive & conservative i actually hate that it has gotten literally any traction

It absolutely came out of AIDS-era safe sex culture and it does have a specific meaning beyond simply "fucking". fucking doesn't mean fluid bonded: you can be fucking through barrier methods, for example. you can also be fluid bonded with someone you aren't fucking, for example by sharing sex toys. It's an infectious disease harm reduction term intended to clarify levels of risk sharing between people, rather like "quarantine bubble" was.

I (too young to remember the AIDS crisis firsthand) did absolutely know and use the proper meaning of fluid-bonded and it's very annoying to me if people are widening it to just mean 'fucking'.

what is the POINT of hold music if every 30 seconds you're going to interrupt it, make me think i'm finally done, then say "we're sorry, our staff is busy on other calls. please hold on, we will be with you shortly."

The fact that they were walking 1-3mph