In a city where singles outnumber couples at a staggering five to one, London should be the epicentre for finding love. Wails of ‘no one’s single’ and ‘all the good ones are taken’ couldn’t – officially – be further from the truth, so why are so many people still struggling to find ‘the one’? Enter the meteoric rise of the dreaded ‘situationship’.
Since the term went mainstream in 2017, situationships – romantic or sexual relationships that are undefined and noncommittal – have become the norm. But casual dating is now facing a backlash with many questioning whether it really offers freedom, or just prolonged emotional confusion. Is this why so many Gen Z are swearing off sex altogether?
