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Dating is hard enough and we make it even harder with the excess of terms we use to describe the various intricacies that go behind relationships (or non-relationship). We bring to you a list of terms that will have you understand whatever it is when your friends are talking about when they complain about being zombie-ed or being benched. Here is a list of terms that we can’t stop hearing of:
Benching: When you don’t really want to date someone seriously but want to keep them in your life as an option so you lead them on for those moments.
Breadcrumbing: When you lead someone on without having an actual intention of committing.
Curving: When you’re dodging attention and affection from someone who is interested in you.
Daterview: A date that feels more like a job interview.
DTR: Stands for down to relationship where two people discuss engaging in a relationship and adding labels to it.
Eskimo brothers/Pogo Sisters: When two people have been with the same person but still continue to maintain a good relationship.
Fluffer: Someone who helps other people with their relationships but can’t seem to get themselves in a relationship.
Firedooring: When one person has all the power in the relationship.
Ghosting: Ghosting is when someone cuts contact with a person they’re seeing on all platforms without any prior warning.
Haunting: When someone lurks around your Instagram after they have ghosted you.
Negging: When you subtly keep taunting your partner without actually confronting the issue.
Orbiting: When someone follows you on social media and likes your pictures and responds to you just enough to let you know that they are interested.
Platonic: A non-sexual relationship.
Roaching: When someone you are involved with does not tell you that they are in a relationship
Situationship: When two people do everything that entails as part of a relationship but do not commit to labels. An act of almost dating instead of actually being in a relationship or having that conversation.
Slow fade: When a relationship or a situationship slowly fades away without any of the two acknowledging the same.
Stashing: When you really like someone but you notice that they are not mentioning you on your social media and that is a cause for stress for you.
Sunday Test: Two people spend a Sunday together to see if they are actually compatible with each other.
Text Black Hole: When you have been texting someone for what seems to be a lifetime but you both never get around to meeting each other.
Zombie-ing: When someone suddenly hits you up long after they have ghosted you in the past.
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