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    Don't let the texting traps come for you during cuffing season

    LOS ANGELES — For weeks you've been exchanging paragraph-long text messages with your crush, but they've yet to ask you out on an official date — and now you're starting to feel antsy. Perhaps you've dropped subtle hints that you'd like to meet them IRL — like mentioning the upcoming release of a movie that you've both shown interest in seeing — but they haven't picked up on it. Or maybe ...
    by Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times Oct 27, 2022 5 minutes
    Don't fall into what some relationship experts call a "texting trap" or a "textuationship," which is a relationship that exists solely on your phone. (Nexusby/Dreamstime/TNS.

    LOS ANGELES — For weeks you've been exchanging paragraph-long text messages with your crush, but they've yet to ask you out on an official date — and now you're starting to feel antsy.

    Perhaps you've dropped subtle hints that you'd like to meet them IRL — like mentioning the upcoming release of a movie that you've both shown interest in seeing — but they haven't picked up on it. Or maybe you've already gotten into the habit of sending "good morning" and "good night" texts to each other on a daily basis, even though you haven't had any face-to-face interactions yet.

    You might have unwittingly fallen into what some relationship experts call a "texting trap" or a "textuationship," which is a relationship that exists solely on your phone.

    As you're more likely to meet than in person or through personal connections, texting, or messaging within the app, has become an integral part of the courtship process.

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