( love affairs)
1.
A love affair is a romantic and usually sexual relationship between two people who love each other but who are not married or living together.
...a stressful love affair with a married man.
= relationship
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2.
If you refer to someone’s love affair with something, you mean that they like it a lot and are very enthusiastic about it.
...the American love affair with firearms...
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