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. But that doesn’t mean there’s not space for some more ...
TL;DR
- The term "attention infidelity" describes failing to focus on a partner due to distractions like phone scrolling.
- New relationship buzzwords like "microcheating," "quiet quitting," "mental load," and "weaponised incompetence" have become common.
- These terms are compared to similar negative phrases that emerged in the workplace post-pandemic.
- The author invents new phrases like "cultural pre-emption betrayal," "premium resource caching," "semi-hostile infantilising," and "fiscal obfuscation" to describe relationship behaviors.