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From Shrekking to Cookie-Jarring: How Well Do You Know the Latest Dating Terms?
In an app-based era, new dating tactics emerge rapidly and while you may have deployed one or been subject to one, how many of the following are real?
TL;DR
- Breadcrumbing: Sparse attention to maintain interest without commitment.
- Ghostlighting: Disappearing and reappearing later as if nothing happened.
- Floodlighting: Oversharing to feign vulnerability and create quick intimacy.
- Process doppelganging: Sabotaging a second date intentionally and blaming an alter ego.
- Cuffing: Entering a relationship to avoid being single for a period.
- Cookie-jarring: Keeping someone as a backup option for when feeling insecure or rejected.
- Pocketing: Keeping a new partner secret from friends and family.
- Shrekking: Dating someone physically unattractive hoping for better treatment.
- Collie-modelling: Emulating an eager-to-please energy to be a desirable partner.
- Wildflowering: Dating without specific expectations or strategies.
- Choremancing: Meeting up for errands or activities as a form of low-key dating.
- Monkey-barring: Starting a new relationship before ending the previous one.
- Reckfulness: A return to a cautious, slow approach to dating.
- Chalance: An enthusiastic and engaged approach to dating, opposite of nonchalance.
- Wanderlove: Openness to romance in exotic locales or using apps while on holiday.
- Clear-coding: Being honest about dating intentions.
- Lime-biking: Abruptly ending a relationship when the initial excitement fades.
- Zip coding: Limiting dating searches to a specific local area.
- Thermocoupling: Arranging first dates in saunas to see people in a vulnerable state.
- Banksying: Planning a breakup meticulously and executing it without warning.