Saturday, March 15th, 2025

Does ghosting mean falling in love with a ghost? You are misunderstanding, situationship, DTR, benching and zombieing are also strange.


Pink flag or neck on deck, kaise hai yeh pyaar?

Due to social media and internet, the dimensions of relationships have also changed. Now relationships are judged on the scale of pink flag, red flag and green flag. Pink flag is that situation in a relationship when someone knowingly ignores many good and bad signs just because he/she wants to give some time to the relationship. But when some time passes, bad behavior is classified as red flag and good behavior as green flag. If there are more red flag signs then the youth separates and if there are more green flag signs then the relationship can be taken forward.

Amidst all this, there is also an era of open relationship, situationship and next on deck. Open relationship means when a person is in a relationship with multiple people at the same time and everyone involved in the relationship knows about it. Then situationship is also very popular among the youth these days, in which romance is involved but there is neither any commitment nor expectation. It is also not clear that both love each other.

After this, Next on Deck has become a part of youth love. Next on deck means keeping a backup plan (next person in the line of relationship) ready. A section also likes micro-men style relationship in which one does not have to spend much money to express love but instead enjoys the happiness of small moments.

Revenge of love is just style

Revenge of love is just style

So does love no longer involve emotions like that? Gen Z says that their love is the same as that of an older man. But being practical, he/she does not take any decision in haste. A 19-year-old young woman doing an internship in social media says on the nanoship style of romance, ‘Recently I met a boy at a Christmas party, I found him/her very interesting. We enjoyed a lot at the party and flirted a lot. The party is over, he/she goes to his/her house and I go to my house. You people may also call it romance, but for us it is nanoship.

There are no emotional strings attached in this type of relationship. But where emotions are involved, we will fulfill it in the same way as everyone else does. Well-known psychologist and counselor Pawan Sonar says, ‘Gen Z’s perspective on love and relationships has changed, so what is their fault in this? Today, the whole world is in their hands, that is, they have so much information on one mobile phone that there is no dearth of options. Due to too much awareness, there is a lot of peer pressure on them.

In a counseling case that came to me, a teenage girl had made several boyfriends just to show off to her friends. Earlier people used to write long letters to their love, now there is messaging, textationship, where they express their love through messaging or social media. Earlier also there used to be terms like double dating, friends with benefits, two timing, rebound. I think Gen Z also loves, it’s just the way they do it has changed. Today’s youth is quite evolved regarding relationships. his/her love is realistic, self-aware and decorated with technique.

These relationships also hurt deeply

These relationships also hurt deeply

Well-known relationship expert Aanchal Gupta says, ‘Today’s youth is practical. In fact, he/she has a lot of options due to his/her exposure to internet and social media. Dating apps have made love as simple as ‘swipe left or right’ (in dating apps, swipe left means to dislike users and swipe right means to like).

Today’s youth is practical, this is the reason why it does not waste much time in love and sometimes chooses ‘situationship’. A couple who came to me was in a similar relationship, where the girl had become serious about the relationship after 2 years. But there was no seriousness from the boy’s side, so the girl had to go through a lot of emotional damage.

Famous life coach Vanita Besania says, ‘In the last few years, youth have been inclined towards the term ‘self love’. Whereas earlier people used to give priority to the happiness of the other person in their relationship, now they give importance to themselves. Gen Z is also focused on their career. She loves her freedom and this thinking has changed her love relationships.

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