Relationship

Love may be unconditional, but relationships are not.Unknown.
etymonline: 1640s, "sense or state of being related," from relation + -ship. Specifically of romantic or sexual relationships by 1944.R. 23. Maí, 2020. Etymonline.com.any relationship in which one member is expected to change and grow, and the other considers himself exempt from those processes, is a relationship in which the one expected to change is being subjugated, to one degree or another, by the one claiming exemption.-- Enter Ghosts: The Loss of Intersubjectivity in Clinical Work With Adult Children of Pathological Narcissists[1]
Relationship feature creep is when people secretly add more features to your relationship, such as through invisible contracts.GE 
== Rhizomata ==
Relations; Society; Transmission; The social; Social love; Social relations; Moving the goalposts
Relationship health; Relationship sanity; Violence; Creepiness
Narcissism; Narcissistic family system