Situationship: the phrase rocking the dating world and confusing older generations. For those who are still in the dark, the term is being used to define the in-between phase of dating and not-dating for Gen Z and Millennials. But what happened to good old dating? Are they just hooking up? Are they exclusive but just afraid of labels? Don’t worry—YPulse has asked young people themselves all about these kinds of relationships in our new trend report What’s The Situationship?, digging into all these questions and more. Tinder (obviously) named situationships as their top trend of the year, finding that the term appeared on 49% more accounts from January to October. Situationships, according to the app, can be defined as “when you’re not quite dating someone, but you’re not just sleeping with them either,” meaning it’s a bit more serious than friends with benefits, but maybe not as serious as casual dating. It’s intentionally vague, and Tinder’s survey of 18-25-year-olds shows 1 in 10 prefer situationships as “a way...
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