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Move over, ghosting. Submarining is the hot new way to be a jerk.


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Just when you think navigating the muddy waters of modern dating can't get any more complicated, a terrible new trend rears its ugly head.

Enter "submarining," the latest, nautically-themed way to mess with someone's head. First uncovered by Marie Claire, submarining is the thing where someone you've been seeing disappears for an extended period but then randomly resurfaces with some version of a "Hey, what's up?" message.

It's in the same family as zombie-ing — when an ex ghosts but then comes back, acknowledging their absence and wanting to start things back up again. In the case of submarining, though, you don't get even a half-assed apology for them being MIA. They just pop back on the radar as if nothing odd has happened. Read more...

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