A Collection Of Interesting Situationship Tweets That Will Make You Think

Some situationships are messy enough to feel like a full-time job, and this collection of tweets captures that chaos perfectly. The jokes land because they sound a little too familiar, from mixed signals and unclear boundaries to the awkward limbo of pretending not to care.

Here, the story is less about one couple and more about the whole situationship experience, the confusion, the denial, and the strange way people keep ending up in connections that never quite become relationships. The tweets and reactions below keep circling the same question: how did this become so common?

Read on for a compact roundup of situationship humor that hits a little too close to home.

1. Something to remember:

Via @OyizaAbdulmumin

2. Here is the proof:

Via @Ay_andrew01

3. Best wishes:

Via @LindseyCreated

4. But are you working on it?

Via @kadijadiablo

Situationships often entail some level of physical closeness, but they typically go beyond casual sexual encounters. The boundaries of a situationship are usually less defined than those of friends with benefits, where both parties consent to avoid forming feelings.

One or both partners may be waiting to see if the connection develops into something more serious. There is disagreement about what constitutes a situationship, but the following are just a few indicators that you could be in one:

• Things don't progress
• You are not integrated into their life.
• You don't go on actual dates.
• Plans are inconsistent and not made in advance.
• There is no discussion about the future.
• You have not had the DTR (define the relationship) talk.
• You don't have a partner for special events.
• There is no concrete evidence that you are a couple.
• You often feel anxious or bored.

That's the part that makes situationships so hard to pin down.

This “best wishes” situationship vibe hits hard like choosing a long-time friend over a demanding girlfriend.

5. Still hurts...

Via @donotcaretbh

6. That significant, huh?

Via @mycodyke

7. Some people...

Via @abbey_martin15

A few of these tweets hit the nerve a little too accurately.

8. Emergency shutdown

Via @INDIEWASHERE

9. So, the famous line is true after all...

Via @sunnydrip

10. Restrain yourself...

Via @kalesterr

It’s strange how, even though our lives have become much easier (we don’t have to go to the well to get water, we don’t have to hunt for food, or wait for a stranger from the nearby city to bring us news), they have also become so much more complicated.

This situationship thing… What is it?

No one knows or can define it. But it’s something that more and more people encounter and experience.

Why is this happening? Are we becoming strangers?

And is it by our own choice, or are we forced into it? On the other hand, why should you have to define a relationship?

There is definitely a lot to think about here...

Need boundaries too? See why one friend asked her friend’s SO to stop tagging along.