How dates got so complicated

Below is a link to an article that attempts to explain it. I bring it ...

How dates got so complicated
 
Below is a link to an article that attempts to explain it. I bring it up here in this community because some of us write books that are driven by character and the relationships of those characters in their world. I don’t know about you, but writing about present-day, pitching woo, to me is like standing under pitch forks and trying to catch them as they fall out of a blue Siberian sky.
 
For example, National Date Night is this Saturday. It's an occasion that poses more definitional issues than you might suspect. Glamour, in a recent poll, found that 73 percent of women "said they often can't even tell whether they've been on a date or not" and 19 percent "said they had never been on a real date at all."
 
After speaking to the experts, the reporter asked those experts what their definition of a date is.  The reporter listed their seven explanations as follows :

1. A date involves two people who are meeting in person
2. A date has no time restriction, and there's no rule that short dates are better than longer dates
3. Someone paying for the date usually signifies that you are on a date
4. Don't expect dates to be elegant anymore
5. You can take your hookup on dates
6.  Some people think hookups are dates
7.  If you're unsure, just ask: "Is this a date?" (the nuclear option)

So, my confusion, and the many writing attempts to approach the present day dating relationship . Maybe, I’m just spinning my wheels in a deepening trench and should not pay attention to the modern day dating conundrum.

Would you or would you not try to depict today’s dating reality into your book if it takes place in the present-day?

Warning dorky video~
Approach with caution~

Link to article here: http://www.vox.com/2014/6/24/5823972/how-dates-got-so-complicated


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Published on June 25, 2014 12:26
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