Is your partner on their phone and ignoring you? I’ve got a buzzword for that
From microcheating to quiet quitting to weaponised incompetence, new terms to describe relationship failings are abundant.
The Guardian reports: From microcheating to quiet quitting to weaponised incompetence, new terms to describe relationship failings are abundant.
But that doesn’t mean there’s not space for some more ... The New York Times alerted me to this expression, coined by the public opinion researcher Daniel Cox in a new book on the “crisis of human connection”.
This lifestyle story centres on the United States. Names and organisations mentioned in the coverage include York Times, Daniel Cox and NYT.
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