Everyone’s talking about fleabagging – but no one can agree what it is

Is it constantly going out with the wrong kind of person, breaking the fourth wall or being an aspirational mess?

The complicated world of dating neologisms continues apace. First there was ghosting, then benching and then orbiting. And now, apparently, there is fleabagging. The dating site Plenty of Fish says fleabagging is a new term to describe the act of repeatedly dating people who are wrong for you– like Fleabag did in the eponymous TV show, with the nice man she lived with in the first series, and then the priest she had sex with once.

The problem with fleabagging as a term, though, is twofold. First, there’s the fact that it is a gross misreading of what Fleabag was about. Second, repeatedly dating people who are wrong for you already has a term; it’s called dating. That’s the whole point of dating.

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from Lifestyle | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2DdnpYG

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