Why some exes never truly leave, by Stephanie Shaakaa

The air in a failing relationship does not turn cold all at once, it thins out, suffocating you so gradually that you learn to live on the vapor of what used to be love. There is a modern, clinical term circulating through the digital echo chambers for how women, in particular, are choosing to survive this slow death of intimacy. They call it “dating them till you hate them.” It is framed as a tactical hack, a form of emotional quiet-quitting where a woman stays in a dead-end relati