Then we have TV shows like the Bachelor and Bachelorette where they kiss/sleep with multiple people whilst dating

No. You dont understand it. And ‘dating’ implies that the relationship has not reached the next step.Escalating the relationship to exclusivity is a mutually agreed upon next step.

Otherwise you are just flapping about with a non-exclusive contract. A transferable, negotiable, non-exclusive contract whereby anybody can do anything, with anybody, at anytime. That’s not dating.

But Mr Putin here, think that this would be called an “outing”, and that “dating” actually means you are in a relationship.

Dating does not mean a relationship which you alluded to, but an agreement and acknowledgement of entering into the phase to develop such relationship, one cannot develop such relationship without exclusivity. read more