"To stay with" someone ("ficar") is a quite popular affective type of relationship among teenagers and it is characterized by being brief, fleeting, immediate, fickle and without commitment. Comparative analyses show that "to stay with"("ficar") follows the same logic which governs fixed ties in other types of relationship. Its particularly provisory and fleeting feature is found, for example, in professional ties in short-term employment, in relationships which were once long-lasting and steady, such as that among neighbours, not to mention family ties. Nowadays, one lives an unprecedented process of time acceleration, space expansion and human rush, which makes it impossible to establish stable and lasting psychosocial ties at all levels of life: from love to work.
To stay with; Teenagers; Relationships; Affection; Contemporary world