Relationships with the opposite sex charachterized by lengthy text message conversations, where two people in a more commited, long term relationship may have summed it up in a two minute phone conversation; Courtship period where a phone call may seem too forward, texting is more comfortable.
"Has Bobby hit that yet?"
" haha, nah hes been engaged in primarily textual relations with her since that party"
Flirting, maintaining a romantic relationship via a text message from a cell phone, an email, or a postal mail letter, such as pen pals or maintenance of a long distance relationship. Textual relations are often used when two people feel the need to carefully choose their words; when thought and careful composition of thought over a longer period of time are required; when the fear of spoken conversation may be misunderstood or taken in the wrong context.
I use my word processor to carefully compose my thoughts before sending my messages out to any of my textual relations.
1. Typically a friendship or bond that is limited to the glass screen, or smart phone.
2. A friendship that occurs via text which is usually that status of "close friends", but is basically nonexistent in "real life".
These friendships usually occur under the nose of other friends. More often than not, these "close" friendships occur between two people you never thought would talk to each other.
Jen the scene kid and Scott the Jock were a part of a 6 person group of friends. Their one-on-one chemistry in the friendship was nonexistent until Scott picked up "them digits". Several months later the other 4 friends were utterly shocked when Jen and Scott started dating since they never talked to each other in person. They concluded that they must have been having a secret textual relationship.