Infatuation Rules
Infatuation Rules
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The Urban Dictionary defines a “soft launch” as “a photo preview of a talking stage before it becomes an official relationship on social media, i.e., taking photos of their dinner plate and their hands, half their face or their shoes as to allude there's someone special in your life.” Suddenly we are all Taylor Swift ...
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Read More »Say a little prayer for every person whose grid has become a graveyard of their past relationships. Oh, the woe and shame of your friend or acquaintance in many iterations of a once happy couple—grinning at a wedding with a redhead in one pic, bowling with a brunette in another, with the now ironic caption “Striking out.” Each square a tombstone memorializing a promising partnership. This was the hard launch—the social media announcement of a romantic relationship in which people debuted on each other’s pages with full face and body shots, only to one day cease to be posted without explanation. The hard launch evolved out of early social media relationship announcements, in which couples simultaneously updated their Facebook profiles to “in a relationship,” sometimes even tagging the other person with a sly smiley face. This era was like watching two people play catch with a Chihuly glass vase—you didn’t know when the relationship would shatter, you just knew it would, and that it would be visually thrilling. The hard launch has fallen out of fashion, for obvious reason. In its place, the relationship soft launch. The Urban Dictionary defines a “soft launch” as “a photo preview of a talking stage before it becomes an official relationship on social media, i.e., taking photos of their dinner plate and their hands, half their face or their shoes as to allude there's someone special in your life.” Suddenly we are all Taylor Swift promoting our new album, hinting and teasing a new era and new aesthetic through Easter eggs and oblique references. The problem is that this delicate rollout style has now become a cliché. It is the subject of countless mocking tweets and TikTok takedowns. To post the toned elbow of your lover is to know that you are being dissected mercilessly in the group chats of your enemies.
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Read More »Cheaters are impulsive, and can't resist taking that risk despite what it might cost them. Cheaters, like bullies, are fueled by power, and drawn to risk. This kind of behavior, however, is a reflection of something deeply rooted inside of them.
How do you put a face to infidelity? The answer is, you can't. Just as you were taught not to judge a book by its cover, it's near impossible to look someone in the eye and, in just one glance, know they're a cheater. The truth is, anyone can be unfaithful— it just depends on how you define the term. Relationship counselor and clinical sexologist Dr. Martha Tara Lee of Eros Coaching said cheating is subjective because different people have different boundaries. "Cheating can be emotional, and/or physical. It is all depending on how the person concerned is feeling," Lee told INSIDER. "Most people are more disturbed by the breaking of trust and the intimacy in the ‘rival' relationship, than whether there is sex involved." According to a 2010 to 2017 General Social Survey issued by the Institute for Family Studies, 20% of men and 13% of women have had sex with someone who was not their spouse while married. And what's most heartbreaking about these statistics is, of those who had been cheated on and found out about it, most probably never saw it coming — at least, not until it was too late. Anyone can be unfaithful, but while you shouldn't necessarily base your judgments off of the stereotypical cheats you see depicted in Hollywood, there are some common personality traits cheaters share. If any of the following red flags are waving right in front of you, it could be a sign your partner's up to something.
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