What do you mean by partner? What types are there?

A partner is a relationship in which people regularly engage in activities together.

In my opinion, partnership is a subdivision beyond intimacy, not a hierarchy replacement, just like the world has all kinds of means of transportation that we humans can think of, but there are no bicycles. I think a partner is a bicycle in this kind of interpersonal relationship. It is a useful supplement to the fixed relationship of friendship, affection and love, and goes to areas that these feelings can't take care of.

The partners around you probably have these:

1 sports partner

You need to exercise in the morning, and you can't ask for help from friends thousands of miles away, but it's no problem to find a sports partner to exercise with. You can urge yourself to exercise every day and have a partner.

2 weekend travel partners

Friends will wander around the city on weekends, and the couple are not good at ordering food, so they form partners with friends of friends, and four couples go to play together on weekends. The advantage is that they can order a lot of dishes while eating, taste them one by one, and then play mahjong in AA. When the play is over, it's over. No longer interfere in each other's lives. If you want to play, you can make an appointment again.

3 Game partners

My 14-year-old nephew is squeezed by the pressure of study every day. As long as he is free, he will play games online. On the Internet, he stretched himself and felt the high spirits of teenagers. As far as I know, he has several games online. As long as he has the conditions to surf the Internet, he instantly finds the feeling of calling friends and calling the wind and rain. This kind of feeling can't be brought by parents, relatives and friends in reality or can't be satisfied immediately.

4 network chat partner

Some topics can't be told to friends or relatives. In a fixed relationship, you may have to consider all angles and interests, such as conflicts with relatives and friends, but you can talk about this topic unimpeded, even if it is a small detail, even if it involves the most unbearable side of human nature, the other party can tell a life situation she has encountered. I think this relationship opens people's hearts and relieves their depression. This kind of hidden angle emotion is understandable. There is no 360-degree dead angle in real intimate relationship, which brings the pleasure of chatting.

People's needs for relationships are diverse, and sometimes intimate and fixed relationships are not necessarily the most comfortable and stretching relationships. Then the existence of "companion" is also accidental and inevitable. No matter what its name is, this flexible and diverse form is loved by people because it provides pure and subdivided value that cannot be provided outside the intimate and fixed relationship.