In today's times, there is social media and many platforms where one can interact to build healthy relationships. Thus, various apps persuade youth to find romantic relationships online. The concept of online dating and finding love became easier with apps like Tinder, Bumble, and many more.
Dating digitally gained a new concept orally; in real time, one can communicate and share a lot of personal information to know each other better. Love in the old times was different; letters were the only medium at that time. They expressed and poured their feelings into the letter. However, due to real-time communication today, the smartphone has made this feeling easier.
Today's relationships are based more on physical attraction rather than personality. Love is not love but is termed as 'lust.' Thus, it gave rise to different relationship patterns and specified them with slang. Modern dating seems like a minefield, as it has a lot of terms that are not easy to understand and involve much technical jargon. Words like pansexual, breadcrumbing, situationship, ghosting, and many more are now common.
Breadcrumbing: When you send flirty but non-committal messages to a person when you're not interested in dating them but don't have the guts to break things off completely, that is breadcrumbing.
Situationship: This term describes a romantic relationship that lacks commitment and the associated norms and expectations. It falls somewhere between friendship and a committed relationship.
Benching: In this relationship, you are into someone enough to commit to officially dating them, but you don't want them to move on and find someone else, so you keep them waiting on the sidelines.
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