Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-71.87.104.8-20130729045241/@comment-4802762-20130802134942

Trent22 wrote: Maria Trimble wrote: The term mate has multiple definitions. A mate can also be defined as a lover, spouse, consort, significant other, or partner (as in domestic partner). Mating and being a mate are two different things. They may go hand in hand but they are not interchangeable. We'll then how did Kate and Derek break up? I wouldn't call Kate and Derek mates. I would call that "Kate using Derek so that she can murder his entire family." Becoming a mate is more consensual than that (or at least, that's what my teachers have said).