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Are you acting like a teenager in love? It’s a modern dating epidemic

I have been called out for the hater energy I bring to my romantic life. Here I was thinking that my rants about the people I date are a sign of my deeper interest in them.

I hate you, please love me. This is the internal monologue of a typical Gen Z—we are sparring to be loved. The blatant hypocrisy of a ‘happily’ single woman is exposed in her constant rants about the concept of men. Those who paint a horrible picture of their situationships for friends also keep going back to the same humiliation routine. Then there are those who apply Chanakya Niti in dating life—“If he takes 20 mins to reply, I will take 40.”

I have also been called out for the hater energy I bring to my romantic life. “Tumhara ghar kabhi nahi basega (You can never build a home with someone),” my aunt says whenever I talk about dating. It confuses her how I have such horrid tales to tell about every man I meet. A colleague, who asked for an update on a Hinge boy over lunch, stopped eating at one point to say, “You are actually sounding mean now.” Here I was thinking that my rants about the........

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