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Have you been Orbited? Read more about the latest relationship trend that is common among millennials
Keeping tabs of your exes social media updates is something everybody does. But take a deeper look and reflect on it this unhealthy trend.
After ghosting, benching, swiping etc., the latest relationship trend that millennials follow is Orbiting. In the era of social media, it is very hard to shake off exes and past partners. Their faces pop up on your Instagram feed and Facebook timeline and they continue to view our Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp stories while we try to move on. They continue to keep tabs on you through social media, and you might be doing the same. This is what orbiting is according to New York Times, which first reported this new-age phenomenon.
It basically means that this person who was a former or still continues to remain a suitor is keeping you in their "orbit". Close enough to constantly see and be seen by each other but far enough to never speak again. It indicates that your ex is acting like a "satellite" and circling around and still keeping you in loop.
It is understandable that exes might want to keep tabs on each other and know what is happening in each other's lives because breakups are not the easiest thing to deal with. But it is not easy for the person on the other side to see that their exes are keeping tabs on them and might make it difficult for them to move on as well. And according to psychologists, this behaviour is not healthy for either party.
Watching the other move on, be happy and live their life without you is obviously not easy. At the same time, watching them be miserable and feeling happy about that is even worse!
Breakups are not easy to move on from in the first place, but when your keep tabs on your ex or they are keeping tabs on you, it is so much more difficult to move on with life.
What are your thoughts on this relationship trend? Have you been subjected to Orbiting? Let us know in the comment section below.
