Gen Zs Approach To Love And Relationships

Gen Zs Approach To Love And Relationships

In today’s generation, love is a difficult thing to articulate. The definition of love changes as generations change. For boomers it usually happened after marriage, for millennials it was a long term relationship that turned into marriage and now we have Gen Z, well well what is love for them? Is it a relationship, situationship, a casual fling or what else? Gen Zs also don't want to use labels these days. It’s a huge commitment, they say. Dating apps are taking over rapidly and you'll find every young adult swiping left or right apparently trying to find love through the screen. We are looking at our convenience even while searching for that ONE among all these people.

When you ask a person in their 20s, “are you with someone or single?” what would you expect as a response either a yes or no, right but that is not how today's ‘dating scene’ works. There are multiple responses to the above question. Let's look at them shall we....

1. Talking stage.

This is a phase before dating where people flirt, text and get to know each other. But get this straight they still are not dating each other or in a relationship.

2. Seeing each other.

In this phase two people are romantically involved or dating casually, but without a fully defined or official relationship label yet.

3. Dating stage.

This phase means people generally are romantically involved and intentionally spend time together to explore or build a relationship.

And to add to this there are types of dating phases, i get it this is too complicated to understand but that is how Gen Z is ... .COMPLICATED that is what they love to say.

Casual dating: going out together without serious commitment

Exclusive dating: seeing only each other, but not officially in a committed relationship yet.

Serious dating: a committed relationship heading toward long-term partnership.

Lets move forward, we have

4. Relationship

This phase is being officially committed to each other after going through all the above stages. Now where does love come into place here? It's not really necessary for love to exist for any of the above things to be there. Relationships still exist without love but can they

function or workout in the long term is an important question we need to ask? Now we don't know the answer to this question but Gen Z is trying to make it work no matter how complicated things get they still figure it out which is what we like about them.

We are in this race of finding the right one at the right time that we miss living the important moments and enjoying life. These terms around dating even existed during the previous generations though they didn't have those labels it was easier to make sense of them. Naming all these stages have made it so complicated that we have lost the essence of love and relationship altogether.

Maybe it's time to take a break from all the chaos and look within us so that we can see through the other person and get to know them not superficially but truly. It's about time we experience love and relationships in its truest sense to find that comfort and happiness that we have been longing for. Looking beyond social media, their likes, profiles, pictures and all these glamorous things is the need of the hour for us, young adults, to find that person. Allow yourself to feel

happiness, compassion, comfort, affection and love not through the screen but in real life and see for yourself how it changes your perspective towards relationships. Give yourself a chance and

others too to experience, feel, explore and build something REAL.