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Story time: at one of my last jobs I had a colleague I chatted with a lot. She told me about her hobbies, new recipes, her friends and her daughters. I told her about my girlfriend, dates we went on, when I cooked for her, brought her flowers or planned vacations together. She was really sweet and never weird about the topic.Half a year in she asked me why I never talked about boys and if I didn't want to have a boyfriend. I was so confused - was she a poly ally? And then it hit me... the damn German confusion with "girlfriend" and "female friend". And I told her "My girldfriend. Who I love and sleep with. My partner."Well, after that our relationship changed and she grew cold towards me. No more chatting about private matters. I though I was super clear but since then I am making a point to explicitely call the people I am in a relationship with my partners to erase any doubt. Lesson learnt. Did you have any confusions like this?Haha we're getting a son and cat reveal before an actual Theo reveal! Poor Zockl doesn't know what's going through Flix' head. He only sees he's glued to his phone all the time.

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Loane

Page 1 bottom left you put prize, should be price. French has the same issue copain copine is friendship when you're young then at some inderterminate age it starts meaning gf and bf and you have to be careful to switch to ami/amies. But capain/copine is still ambiguous for same sex.

Sleepy Fox Writes

In US (don't know about other countries) English, it's a somewhat generational thing. My aunt calls her friends her girlfriends, but I never would. Girlfriend almost always means a romantic relationship, as does boyfriend. Language is fun that way. I'm sorry you had that experience, that's awful.

TT

I don’t understand why people are so weird about same-sex relationships. I’m sorry you had to go through this.

Yve

Damn homophobes. My fam accept me the way I am and if I use "Freundin" in a more grinny way and more smuty vibe, they der know it. I say it depends on how you say it, but homophobes will stay homophobical. I has last friday an occirance woth one of my exes (back then I was still bi and testing if I could be happy with guys). My ex is all cool, also if I think he still hopes to get me back (he fcked up), and there is no way I would ever get back. But whelp he completely accept me as me that said I am now only pan L. And as he saw me with my short hairs he was sooo damn nice and sait that it looks damb good on me and that's poor that I am L, since "rarw", his words. As we are now 2 years hood friends after the bad break up I also let him feel my short hair, sinxe he got long hair and asked if it feelas awesome as he thinks it feels, real funny conversation xD Also not one person at that event day looked strange or disgusted at me. I think yeah some had the penny roll, but they all really were accepting and real nice. And I swear if I would now use "Freundin" /gf they all know it, also if I would not smirk. But yeah straight people tend to believe "freundin" only stands for non romantically if you are the same gender, but that's a straight Problem, mostly made by homophobes... And I do really feel sad that ypu oftenly get these reactions, like ignoring the fact of romantically friendships for "Freundin". I really hate such homophobes, don't let it get to your heart! They are the shts not you, also for being that shallow with the word "Freundin".

Yve

And thanks for the upload! Awesome work as ever! <3

mta2k

I so don't understand people, who are totally okay someone, but after they got to know about the other's sexuality they'll act different... What changed in that person? Nothing... And for the "original" question, here goes my hungarian-rambling:D So in our language this is a funny topic, because we have a lot of alternatives, but the most common word is the same for friends and partners ('barát' for male/gender neutral and 'barátnő' for female friends). The other sentence are very slangy (like for friends here is "haver", what means something like "bro"), or sometimes they have a "not so nice" sounding (like we have "csajom" for "my girlfriend" there, but it is kind of degrading? at least half of the women from my generation weren't be happy if they partner call them this way:D) So... usually, we try to play with the sentences. For example i refer for my male friends something like "he is one boy friend of mine", while for my partner i say "he is THE boyfriend of mine". it is kinda confusing, but lowkey funny:D

Arakhor Vorac

Yeah, when women refer to their female friends as girlfriends, I'm always baffled, since that's almost always your romantic partner.

Arakhor Vorac

I have had a couple of people ask if my (straight male) best friend who I live with is my partner, but I had to assure them that (unlike the meme) we are only flatmates. Mostly, the topic never comes up because I'm perennially single and otherwise straight-passing.

Sleepy Fox Writes

It's definitely different. It's usually pretty funny when you ask them how they developed such a polycule.

Lilith S.

i feel like there must be some level of denial going on. it’s not normal to platonically date and get flowers for just one person you’re only friends with, right?

Tooticki7

My ex girlfriend wasn't out at work and finally decided that she wanted to change that. But she was too scared to tell people so instead she wanted to let them know by showing them. She took me to a work event and since we wanted people to know we were a couple we acted extremely couple-y. Like... We held hands on top of the table, touched constantly, I kissed her cheek,... After a couple of hours of seeing us being aggressively gay one of her coworkers asked us: "so, I didn't catch what your relation to each other is. Are you siblings or just friends?"