Delaytionship
Online dating relationship that never goes beyond emails and chats.
The delaytionship would have to end. After 8 months of chatting and emails, he broke up with her because she wanted to meet for coffee.
Delaytionship
Long term relationship that hasn't evolved beyond doing stuff at weekends, and in which conversations about long term commitment are not really welcomed.
Friends realised this was a delaytionship when they'd still not got civil partnered despite him proposing three years ago, and they spent most of their time apart, in separate homes.
Delaytionship
A relationship that always manages to skirt around the issue of long term commitment
She knew she was in a delaytionship when any conversation about longer term commitment was a dead end, and they'd been stuck in this loop for a couple of years.