It's Time To Pack up That #Delusionship Bae
Let’s be real. You were looking for a sign — and this is it.
By now, you’re probably familiar with TikTok‘s favorite term “delulu” as we’re all tapping that energy to ignore the oncoming recession and insane inflation. Delusionships on the other hand, tap the same energy, just in regard to love, sex and dating.
Think of your last #meetcute or crush you enjoyed from a distance. Did you fantasize about your future together? Imagine the most adventurous bae-cations together and maybe even kids? Congratulations, you have a delusionship, what relationship experts call “fantasy relationships.” If you were in a situation ship and the already lacking human decency appears to decrease — you’re definitely in a delusionship.
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Fantasizing is actually helpful when the goal is building connections. As clinical psychologist Raquel Martin explained to Insider ”We can all have our fantasies without pathologizing them.” Psychologist T. Joel Wade confirmed, it’s okay to idealize. After all, fantasizing helps you manifest what you desire. The issue, however, is when you live in that fantastical place without any action towards the future — a.k.a. delusion.
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“If the delusionship is too idealized it can create problems in that it becomes hard, or virtually impossible, for the person of interest to ‘live up’ to the idealized image,” Wade shared. By placing them on a pedestal, it quite literally will not matter how much you manifest, no human will ever be able to measure up. ”Also, there can be an initial problem of the person of focus not having reciprocal feelings, or feelings of the same degree,” he closed.
So be sure to take score before investing your heart, or else you’re admittedly entering dangerous delulu territory.
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