


The question of why commitment is declining in the first place is not addressed.
At this point we’re only seeing each other once every other week, and almost three weeks had passed before our most recent date. Is it even worth it to continue dating him at all then, or am I just being unrealistic expecting that people that are just casually dating could still see each other once a week?
I’m curious to know how do fellow online daters define casual dating or as Ok Cupid likes to call it, short-term dating?
Let's say your friends are asking the real score between you and your current beau, and you suddenly find yourself struggling for the right answer. F*ck buddies and hoping to be in a relationship soon?
You thought of the relationship statuses in Facebook, but none of it best describes yours. Or just happy and hoping you’re on the road to forever land?
The article is framed by a case study of “Jacob” who comes back to Portland, Oregon, from the East Coast in his mid-twenties and spends two years finding a woman to date.
She soon moves in with him and doesn’t seem to mind his “lifestyle” though past girlfriends have called him “lazy, aimless, and irresponsible with money”.
magazine has an article arguing that online dating is undermining monogamy.
Further undermining it, we should say, because the sexual mores that have devastated marriage go back four or five decades.
Fewer and fewer “couples” make it past the honeymoon phase once the man feels sh*t is starting to get real.
Admit it or not, this is a common type of relationship now.