There were frequent jokes about the affectionate relationship of the President and his wife.
Between the dog and the middle-aged woman a very close, affectionate, but not entirely happy relationship developed.
He warmly accepted the invitation, and at once they became not only on terms of affectionate relationship, but almost like old friends.
But they're old friends, and I think they have an affectionate relationship, to say the least.
Apparently he had an affectionate relationship with the relatives who took him in.
Prince Pedro developed an affectionate relationship with her, whom he came to regard as his mother.
He has affectionate relationship with his mother, strained by her long-hour work.
Even so, they had an affectionate relationship and kept in contact with each other until her death in 1873.
There seemed to be an affectionate relationship between them and the people there.
"So, the two of you maintain an affectionate relationship."