The Anatomy Of A Typical Gen Z Relationship And Everything Wrong With It
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The Anatomy Of A Typical Gen Z Relationship And Everything Wrong With It

When did dating go down the drain?

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The Anatomy Of A Typical Gen Z Relationship And Everything Wrong With It
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Nowadays meeting someone means it usually begins at the click of a button. Relationships are born within direct messages, flirting is associated with indirect tweets about one another and anything more forward than that is scary.

We judge each other based on the sentence or two in our profile bio. What you post says more about you than anything else. It means if you are interested in someone and getting to know them, you are in the "talking" stage. These new ways of love are the reason these relationships are failing.

There are three major problems with modern relationships above all the others.

1. Communication

There are so many couples living in complete mystery of how the other really feels. The question "What are we?" sparks fear and reluctance. This causes misunderstandings. The speed at which someone texts back indicates how interested someone really is. There is a lot left to the imagination when most conversations are through text messages leaving no way to tell how someone sounds when they say something, or how sincere they really are.

2. Jealousy

Of course, jealousy exists in all relationships, a little jealousy might even be healthy. However, the trend nowadays has become completely blown out of proportion when girls are now referred to as "crazy." It has become unacceptable for someone in the relationship to have a friendship with someone of the other sex without some form of insecurity implanted in their partner's mind.

This is because cheating is a norm, people often go into relationships in fear of the same outcome as their last. There is no trust. If your boyfriend/girlfriend was messed up by their past you are automatically doubted and generalized. There is no standing a chance when love goes hand in hand with insecurity.

3. Authenticity

Before you meet someone in school it is more than likely that you already have a small opinion on them. You probably follow them on Twitter, Instagram, and you have seen their stories on snap chat. Social media shouldn't be what alters someone's perception of who you really are.

For my own sake, I wouldn’t want my opinion on someone to be backmasked by how they portray themselves online, there is no telling how real it really is. This also brings me to the fact that the thrill of taking a chance on who we are interested in and learning more on one another is robbed from us when you can look at their profile and find out everything about them from what they are interested in, to where they went on vacation last summer.

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