According to the Oxford English Dictionary, parasocial relationships are "one-sided, unreciprocated sense of intimacy felt by a viewer, fan, or follower for a well-known or prominent figure (typically a media celebrity), in which the follower or fan comes to feel (falsely) that they know the celebrity as a friend." I've thinking about this recently as I was discussing with my partner how the ways in which we were raised are fundamentally different. He knew a life before the i