The green and red are joined by beige flags Proof that you can talk realistically about relationships in social media?
Online and offline discourse on relationships is always alive and crackling, from the heart post on up. Especially at this time, there is a lot of talk about green flags and red flags, or the signs, fixations, habits and behaviours of one's partner that immediately warn of a nefarious or happy future at the start of a relationship and should therefore be carefully examined. The arguments that break down every little thing into its basic components and try to see the good or the bad in it, as if people and their actions were the tea bottles or the animal entrails of the Etruscan haruspices, are endless. Hence the spectrum of weathervanes is widening every day. The beige ones are a new addition.
It is said that happiness (even couples' happiness) is only real when it is shared, and social networks are there on purpose. Unfortunately, however, it seems that relationships only exist and are "tellable" and exciting when they are at the two extremes: when they are happy and idealised or when they are toxic and terrible. In both cases, everything is told without shame or modesty, putting sensitive information online and potentially accessible to millions of people.
@kxkinax ok but also why is it beige flag and not orange flag? #fyp #beigeflag #greenflags Summer Background Jazz - Jazz Background Vibes
From this perspective - once we accept the public nature of virtually every aspect of our lives and consider the underlying tendency to overshare - Beige Flags seem almost reassuring. There is nothing dangerous or irritating about sharing a silly and harmless aspect of one's relationship or partner. In fact, it is often amusing and shows us that not only are there fairy tales that come true, princesses and princes on white horses, improbable lightning strikes or manipulations, betrayals and crashes, but there is a third possibility that is not told because it is not in films, songs or advertisements that is most common. There are the long and happy, habitual relationships where nothing special happens, where you learn to appreciate and sometimes endure all the silly fixations and shrewd habits of the person with whom you have chosen to share part of your existence.
