Casual Dating vs Serious Dating: 6 Ways to Know Your Status

Is there really a difference?

Christopher Kokoski
Be Unique
Published in
6 min readDec 7, 2020

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Couple laughing together — Casual dating vs Serious Dating
Photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash

At some point in our dating lives, almost all of us have been seeing someone for a while, and then, out of seemingly nowhere, we wonder, “Are we casual or serious?”

We fret. We pace. We call all of our friends.

We even reach out to the single ones whose dating track record is a dumpster fire of nightmare tales. Because, yeah, we believe they might magically give us some much-needed insight into our relationship conundrum.

We weigh our choices. We might try our hand at adulting by scribbling down the pros and cons on a page labeled, “Casual dating vs Serious dating.”

Going purely from personal experience, this usually goes on and on until you either end up married or ghosted.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Casual Dating vs Serious Dating: What’s the Difference?

Probably the biggest difference between casual dating and serious dating is the level of commitment and exclusivity.

In casual dating, there is little to no commitment. No expectation of consistent texting, no expectation of anything at all. Especially monogamy. You can casually date more than…

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Christopher Kokoski
Be Unique

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