the collaborative, amicable and (ironically) emotionally connecting ending of a relationship done when emotionally mature, emotionally healthy people respectfully acknowledge their differing wants and needs and agree together within a context of mutual respect to end the aspects of their relationship which do not serve them, sometimes enabling them to part as friends with love in their hearts.
Mature people in love who find that they just aren't right for each other don't have to find some bullshit reasons to hate each other to justify ending the relationship, they can recognize what isn't working and communicate, to have a companionate breakup.
by Creative Suggestions May 20, 2015
Get the Companionate Breakup mug.That irritating, not especially romantic state that many married couples fall into when they are no longer young and restless- basically, they're friends with benefits and wedding rings. The purpose of this is to prevent passion from interfering with raising their kids. It's a force of nature, and it is incredibly disturbing to watch as it takes place. There is no known cure except divorce.
Bill and Sheryl had been married for fifty seven years and could go for weeks without so much as kissing. Companionate romance strikes again.
by Beckie <33 February 16, 2008
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Get the Communionated mug.A couple sat on the couch, each reading their own books quietly & contentedly in companionable silence.
by pink stars October 18, 2010
Get the companionable silence mug.A Compassionate Bastard wants to live in a world where it is not necessary to be confronted by beggars or demands for handouts from charities. Governments are responsible for proving for their citizens and in a Compassionate Bastard system you could be as big a bastard as you liked, focussing on your own well-being and lifestyle reassured that everyone’s basic needs would be taken care of, yet not feel that you are being taken advantage of with over-taxation or rewarding of the lazy.
by Compassionate Bastard August 26, 2009
Get the Compassionate Bastard mug.It is a social and political philosophy which encourages people to face up to their own rather nasty human nature and describes policies to protect society.
Compassionate Bastardism is about accepting that we are all bastards and harnessing the greed that drives the majority, but at the same time ensuring that everyone is provided with the means to survive.
Compassionate Bastardism is about accepting that we are all bastards and harnessing the greed that drives the majority, but at the same time ensuring that everyone is provided with the means to survive.
Compassionate Bastardism holds that if you want a fair society you have to be a bastard about being compassionate so that your compassion can go to the people that really need it and it cannot be taken advantage of by the bastards.
by Compassionate Bastard August 25, 2009
Get the Compassionate Bastardism mug.A Nanny who is hired not primarily to take care of someone’s children or house, but instead to be a companion for the home owner.
Jen: Did you meet Loretta’s new Nanny?
Shaniqua: Yes. She hardly paid any attention to the kids.
Jen: Damn straight, and Loretta spent the whole evening chatting with her like they were just friends.
Shaniqua: Oh yeah … she got herself a companionanny.
Shaniqua: Yes. She hardly paid any attention to the kids.
Jen: Damn straight, and Loretta spent the whole evening chatting with her like they were just friends.
Shaniqua: Oh yeah … she got herself a companionanny.
by tinky2jed December 3, 2011
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