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I like the compadre and comadre words..altho i think it'll be easier to introduce the two if you are able to say "comadre" first. Everyone (including me up to 5 minutes ago here) thinks they know what a compadre is...




Agreed. The more I think about it, though, these two words may work (and I'll probably use them until I/we find something else. However, there's one part of the definition I have a problem with, and it is this that makes me hesitant.

"... you would trust with the life and wellbeing of your child, whether that person is a godparent to your child or not or even if you had a child or not." A couple of these people I mentioned I love dearly, but I'm not sure that I would trust them with the life and wellbeing of my child. I'm not sure they're that responsible.

So, I guess I'm looking for something that has a similar meaning, but does not convey that sense of trusting them with the life of my child. See my original post for more details.

Wow! This is harder than I thought it would be to find.