A mid mate is a friend who occupies that awkward middle tier — not close enough to be truly relied on, not distant enough to simply be an acquaintance. They're present at the social events, they'll double-tap your posts, they'll make plans that rarely actually happen, and they'll be perfectly pleasant without ever being genuinely there for you when things get hard. The mid mate relationship is most notable for its persistent mediocrity; it never really deepens but never quite fades out either, hovering in a perpetual meh state. Most people have several mid mates and quietly accept them as a background feature of their social landscape.
He's a mid mate — nice enough to invite to things but you'd never actually call him if something went wrong.
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