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THE A TO Z OF MODERN DATING
The Philippine Star
|June 07, 2026
The last thing I can claim to be an expert at is modern dating.
There was a time when romance required only three things: courage, proper grooming, and enough time to burn the telephone lines after merely calling to check in. Today, courtship and dating feel more like science experiments conducted entirely on TikTok. And somewhere along the way, love stopped being simply love.
I did my utmost to learn Gen Z’s lingo but still ended up like the girl at the end of Jason Derulo’s Talk Dirty, who said, “What? I don’t understand!”
So, in representation of an entire generation or two, I will attempt to enter the strange new world of Gen Z dating vocabulary and get out unscathed. Here goes nothing.
Attachment style. The modern explanation for everything. Nobody is simply distant anymore; they are “avoidant.” Nobody is needy; they are “anxiously attached.” Romance has turned into psychology with emojis.
This story is from the June 07, 2026 edition of The Philippine Star.
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