made love

Shared a bed

Made love is the past tense of make love, meaning to have sex.

The phrase implies tenderness or emotional connection rather than casual encounter: They made love for the first time on their anniversary.

It can sound old-fashioned or euphemistic compared to more direct terms like fucked or had sex.

intimacy

embrace

Hold closely in arms

bonding · pillow talk · afterglow · caress · cuddle · whisper · bedroom · privacy · vulnerability · trust

romance

courtship

Seeking another's romantic favor

rendezvous · amour · sweetheart · honeymoon · serenade · roses · enchantment · affair · liaison · boudoir

passion

desire

Intense wanting

  • lustIntense carnal appetite
  • ardorIntense emotional warmth
  • yearningIntense prolonged craving

longing · sensuality · eroticism · heat · fire · ecstasy · climax · moaning · sweat · breathless

Opposites
physical intimacy

made loveabstained

Voluntarily held back

refrained · hugged

emotional valence of physical act

made loveraped

Sexually assaulted by force

violated · abused · brutalized

relational connection

made lovebroke up

Ended a relationship

divorced · separated · parted ways · rejected · spurned

Family

love, make, lovely, made, loving, loved, lover, maker, beloved

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