The hook-up or Short-Term Relationship
One factor to consider and which often comes to the forefront in dating is how
long should the dating association continue. One or both individuals will in some way
have to make a determination about whether to continue to make time, and agreeing to
spend money to keep going out on dates. This question can be answered by individuals
who decide to ‘hook up.’
By so doing, individuals who are dating and who decide to ‘hook-up’ have pretty
much by default decided that their dating relationship is going to be a short-term
experience. That’s because a ‘hook-up’ is understood to be a short-term association.
Dating that involves hooking up evolved among college students and young,
working adults. It seemed to evolve in part from the stress and frustration in the search
for finding a date with whom a long-term relationship into the future seemed possible or
probable. When there was a failure to find such dates, people felt even more pressured as
time passed and their age increased. Additionally, not having a steady date invariably
meant that periods of loneliness would be experienced.
But by meeting someone who at the onset is friendly and with whom you can also
get along, both of you can agree to hook-up
