A relationship where you are serious enough to buy gifts for each other but you know it won't last. Your friends will ultimately receive the gifts after the relationship is over.
-Linda, are you still with Nick?
- No, it was just a crockpot relationship. Want the sweater he got me?
- No, it was just a crockpot relationship. Want the sweater he got me?
by ListenLynda September 16, 2017

A male or female (usually in their teens or 20s) who always needs to be in an interpersonal relationship and be around someone from the opposite sex on an intimate level of all costs. They will ditch all their friends and hobbies as soon as they nail down a relationship.
"what ever happened to dean" asked Sam. "He got another gf. No one ever sees him now. He is a relationship bandit."
by Trog11 July 25, 2016

When people are in a high school relationship, but one of them has committed to a college that the other is not going to. Now they have a maximum amount of time together.
by WeUsedToPlayHouse July 28, 2023

Any relationship between individuals that does not conform to traditional hetero normal social standards of a monogamous marriage between a man and a woman. Alternative Relationships include but are not limited to people in same-sex marriages, the polyamorous, swingers, a-sexual partnerships, well as relationships based on power exchange, fetishes, or historic relationship archetypes such as 1950s Households.
Doug's parents were shocked when they learned that he was bisexual and polyamorous. Doug explained that there were many types of Alternative Relationship types today besides traditional marriage.
by Zev- August 3, 2022

by SilentFissure November 11, 2017

by Angel234IsTheDarkSeraphim April 1, 2025

To lie about a relationship
by j_dagawddd January 16, 2017
