Pillow Partner
A Pillow Partner is a large, comfy, sink-into pillow in one's bed, that will substitute for a real boyfriend/girlfriend when one can not get that person of your dreams. A person can fantasize, hug, kiss and cuddle with his/her Pillow Partner when the real "one" isn't there. It satisfies the desire to hug and cuddle with someone.
The man I truly love is unavailable, so I hug my Pillow Partner every night as I go to sleep, and I fantasize that it's really him that I'm hugging to sleep.