{"id":45,"date":"2016-12-12T19:41:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T19:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/courtneyhayes\/?p=45"},"modified":"2016-12-20T23:17:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T23:17:23","slug":"welcome-complicationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/courtneyhayes\/2016\/12\/12\/welcome-complicationships\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Complicationships!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Complicationships: From POF, to eHarmony to Tinder, you can rest assured that there\u2019s a dating app or website targeted specifically to your dating requirements!<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve found myself in many <em>Complicationships\u00a0<\/em>of my own. Blurred boundaries, official\/unofficial, just friends? Modern dating is a confusing place and the world of online dating, doesn&#8217;t help. Whether it&#8217;s being too afraid to admit to feelings, not understanding where I stand with someone, or having to play by the crazy amount of unwritten rules of online dating, I&#8217;ve probably been there and for some reason I want to share my glorious experiences with you guys.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More people now than ever are taking the plunge and signing up to various forms of online dating. However, only 5% of Americans\u00a0saying they met their exclusive partners online. So online dating seems kind of pointless if a long term relationship is what you desire.<br \/>\nSo, if the traditional, exclusive form of dating is lost on online dating sites, what is taking it\u2019s place? Hook-ups, \u2018friends with benefits\u2019 and open relationships are contemporary relationship arrangements that add to the confusing muddle that is modern dating. I call these complicated forms of relationships:\u00a0<em>Complicationships.<\/em><br \/>\nWith a sparkling, seemingly perfect new date a simple click away, there isn&#8217;t the incentive to work on relationships. And with these new types of romantic \u2018arrangements\u2019 how can anyone understand how they work?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I will also be looking at social media&#8217;s impact on modern dating and offering you guys some advice on how to cope with the unforgiving realm of online dating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>This should be interesting.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complicationships: From POF, to eHarmony to Tinder, you can rest assured that there\u2019s a dating app or website targeted specifically to your dating requirements! I&#8217;ve found myself in many Complicationships\u00a0of my own. Blurred boundaries, official\/unofficial, just friends? Modern dating is a confusing place and the world of online dating, doesn&#8217;t help. Whether it&#8217;s being too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/courtneyhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/courtneyhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/courtneyhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/courtneyhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/courtneyhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/courtneyhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/courtneyhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/courtneyhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/courtneyhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/courtneyhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}