Even if you start casually seeing someone, there will come a time in the relationship when you will have to ask yourself, “Now what?”
Reddit userAngry2320recently reached that point with the guy she was seeing and he made it really easy for the woman to answer that question.
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Relationships with no clear definitions have a risk of getting messy
According to Paulette Sherman, PhD, author of the bookFacebook Dating: From First Date to Soulmate, communication is key when you’re trying to navigate situationships—romantic or sexual entanglements where people haven’t established the nature of their relationships.
Both parties need to “be honest and direct,” Shermanexplains.
To help avoid this, Sherman suggests establishing a routine. “Some people see each other every Friday or on the weekends,” she says. But when you’re spending multiple days together and meeting each other’s parents, you’re definitely moving towards a relationship.
“Ask yourself what sex means to you. Whether you’re going to be sleeping around or you’re just going to be seeing each other, be up-front with them.”
Stories like the one we just read are becoming more widespread. Tinder’s 2022 Year in Swipereportshowed that the top dating trend among singles from age 18 to 25 was that they were “owning the situationship as a valid relationship status.”
The platform had a 49% increase in members adding the phrase to theirTinder biosbetween January and October 2022.
However, they can get messy. Myisha Battle, a sex and dating coach and author ofThis Is Supposed to Be Fun: How to Find Joy in Hooking Up, Settling Down, and Everything in Between, says the thing with situationships is that there’s no end game in sight.
“With friends-with-benefits, there’s a kind of implicit understanding that there’ll be no hard feelings if it doesn’t work out,” sheexplains. “But with situationships, I think people are just seeing where things go, and maybe one person will have a vision of some kind of future, whereas the other might not.”
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