Girlfriending

Lark praises Courtney's mothering skills, but grades her low on her girlfriending skills.

But this toxic parenting and toxic wifing and girlfriending is responsible for so many bad children, bad marriages and bad dogs that I don't have time to explain it all.

I’ll have to brighten myself up for Lyra, lest she pull some bullshit psychoanalytic routine disguised as benevolent girlfriending, just for the purpose of fucking with my head.

The Hitlerjugend was almost prudishly puritan. Boozing, smoking, visiting brothels and even serious ‘girlfriending’ were officially denied, while major emphasis was put on sport and fitness.

Watch out, there, Jeremy! You are starting to show enough knowledge of the ways of girlfriending to get your ARK card taken away.

“Someone needs a lesson in girlfriending,” he said to his parents. […] “Girlfriending? Never thought Id see the day.” His father draped an equally as possessive arm around his wife and kissed her cheek. “You were right, doll face.”