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Zeuro no they don’t. If it is not explicitly or even implicitly established that you are in a committed relationship, then you just aren’t.
Now you are shifting your argument.
What I said stands: if people are interacting at the levels you described, they are clearly in a
relationship. Not a
committed relationship, perhaps--and you even raising "implicitly" is a whole can of its own worms, as one party can often feel as though there
was an
implicit commitment...--but a
relationship nonetheless.
And frankly, anyone who considers any level of explanation whatsoever too much “effort,” is completely selfish and lazy as fucking Hell.
lol
Perhaps the person exiting doesn't like confrontation--
e.g., the way
you are really digging in!--and just doesn't want to be savaged, potentially, by someone whom he or she has decided they don't want or need in their own life,
for their own reasons.The interaction started because they allowed it; now they are disallowing it. Since you don't recognize
uncommitted relationships as examples of relationships, I hope "interaction" is acceptable, since you have a very narrow definition of relationship.
So what do you call those levels of interaction? And why do you think you are owed ANYthing by a person who is not in that tiny set of "[committed] relationship"?