There is a dating crisis in the world it’s no longer enjoyable to take up dating, not with the new habits that are slowly becoming permanent.
For example, you meet a guy/girl then make specific plans to meet up and then on the day and time of the meeting the person you are meeting just decides to cut you off and block you on all social media platforms. This is called “cloaking.”
Others might ghost and then attempt to come back from the dead. (Also known as zombie-ing.) Having a word for confusing dating behaviour can make it a little easier to bear – it allows you to describe what happened and commiserate with others who’ve experienced something similar.
If you have been trying to find love this year, you must have experienced some of these things, now we have found a name for them
1. Career-zoned (verb) – When someone rejects you romantically but wants to connect professionally.
3. Soul-mining (verb) – When someone tries to cram three months of emotional intimacy into your first three hours together. May seem exciting in the moment, but is usually followed by never seeing each other again. Think of it as an emotional one-night stand, or “Before Sunrise” reenactment without the sequels.
4. Heart-bargain (verb or noun) – The law student or lawyer who tries to reason their way into or out of an emotional decision, such as a marriage proposal or a breakup.
5. Owl (noun) – That person who texts only when you’re asleep – not in a booty call kind of way, but because they spend their days in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility or they just want to seem inaccessible. Problem is: If you can’t find a time to text when you’re both awake, how will you ever meet up?
6. Instabait (verb or noun) – Uploading Instagram stories to prod a FOMO-prone crush to get in touch. May work in the short-term, but effects are likely to disappear quickly. Example: I hadn’t heard from Anna in days! So I Instabaited her with pics from that hot new bar we’d talked about checking out, she DMed me, “We should totally go.” We never went.
7. Faux beau (noun) – That guy who acts like a boyfriend, all as a ruse to just continue his string of hookups. Example: He introduced me to his friends and his parents, even brought me to a work dinner – and then said he wasn’t ready for a relationship. What a faux beau!
8. Popsicle (verb or noun) -When your instinct is to play it the opposite of cool, but you try (just this once!) to play hard to get. Like the frozen dessert, your chill does not come naturally and may appear only seasonally.
9.Social-squatter (noun) – Someone who breaks up with you but wants to keep seeing your friends platonically. Understandable because your friends are awesome but totally unacceptable.
10.Ted (noun) – That person who doesn’t realise the type of grand gestures that look like devotion on screen – like when Ben Stiller’s character in “There’s Something About Mary” goes to extreme lengths to track down his high school crush years later – are actually super-creepy when performed in real life.