love affair

to involve, to enfold, to swallow up, to get in, to catch up

to avoid

to avoid

washing away sand to obtain something desirable, such as gold dust or rice / by extension, a fine-grained or careful sorting out or selection of something or someone

to wash away sand to obtain something desirable, such as gold dust or rice / by extension, to carefully sort out or select something or someone

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

(idiomatic) to avoid being seen; to be clandestine