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papalonian@lemmy.world 3 days agoMy understanding is that, in the pre-exclusive phase, either party can be talking to multiple people (hence the “unexeclusive” part), it’s just generally in bad taste to bring it up or talk about, and it’s much more likely for a woman to have multiple people interested in her than a man. So the likelihood of a man exclusively dating a woman who is not exclusively dating him is decent, and that can feel one sided.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Well the context from the post makes it seem pre-exclusive because “talking to” is the name of a phase before exclusivity.
Because “dating” is confusingly starting to take on the same meaning as “in a relationship with,” which makes no sense but vernacular language doesn’t care about contradictions
papalonian@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah, specific terminology can be confusing, and I’m sure it varies a lot from person to person as well as region or region, that’s why clear communication is important.