unspoken bae
The person everyone around you knows is your bae even though neither of you has officially acknowledged it out loud.
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The person everyone around you knows is your bae even though neither of you has officially acknowledged it out loud. The unspoken bae occupies a legally-grey romantic zone: you're texting constantly, your friends call them your partner, and you get a little too quiet when someone else flirts with them. The relationship exists in full HD in reality but has never been rendered in words. Either exquisitely romantic or a recipe for prolonged emotional confusion — usually both at the same time.
She's always at his gigs, he walks her home every time — that's an unspoken bae situation right there.
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