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love affair

1

fitness club; gym; health spa

2

strip-searching; security check

1

White Day (March 14); day for giving white chocolate and other presents to female coworkers and friends in return for gifts received on Valentine's day

1

Golden Week (early-May holiday season in Japan)

2

on the rocks

1

children are a bond between husband and wife; children hold marriages together

1

credit-card loan

1

meal set before one; women's advances

2

to crumble away; to collapse

1

lonely person; someone who easily succumbs to loneliness

2

(nothing) but a little

1

sensible; perceptive; quick to understand; understanding; sympathetic

1

to keep one's chastity; to remain faithful to one's spouse; to remain faithful to one's lover

1

to become unrestrained and go to excess; to lose all restraint; to lose one's tension and become relaxed; to let go; to become disorderly; to be scattered

1

(one's) initials; first letter (of a name, sentence, etc.); initial; first

1

sensible; perceptive; quick to understand; understanding; sympathetic

1

mainly cloudy; tending to be cloudy

1

de facto marriage; common-law marriage; living together as husband and wife without formal marriage

1

after making the rounds; after having passed through many hands; after going through many places; eventually

1

unhappy

1

cameraphobia; dislike of having one's photograph taken

1

to be blissful; to be very happy

2

photo frame (with stand)

1

accomplishment; lessons (in an art, skill, etc.); practice

4

speed dialing

1

relationships formed by wealth will end when the money ends; the relationship ends when the money runs out; the end of money is the end of love

1

Valentine's Day

2

to make advances (to); to woo; to work on someone

1

bill; bill of sale; tab (for later payment); credit; contact move (in go); direct attack to an enemy stone; sound effect produced by striking with clappers a wooden board in kabuki

1

to disentangle; to untangle; to unravel; to relax; to soften; to relieve (e.g. stress, tension)

1

Japanese fir (Abies firma); momi fir

1

telephone; telephone number; telephone call; phone call

5

predisposition for love

2

steady; steady relationship; going steady

3

jingle (i.e. in a television commercial)

1

the feeling between (new) lovers

1

right in the middle (of); midst; height

1

Christmas card

1

good-natured; of good character

1

to pluck; to pick; to nip off

1

disenchantment; apathy; spoiled fun; turn-off

1

fadeout

1

Christmas present

1

skipping rope; jump rope; skipping; rope-jumping

1

Aquarius (constellation); the Water Carrier; the Water Bearer

1

single room; own room

1

sense of being victimized; aggrieved feelings; victim mentality; victim's mind

2

mistake

1

to be at one's wits' end; to be cornered; (lit.) to be packed to the hilt

1