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One of my friends told me that she's been dating this guy exclusively for 8 months, though they're not officially boyfriend and girlfriend.

This was strange to me, as my approach to dating is different. I prefer befriending the person first before deciding whether I like them romantically or not and if I do, I'd go on a date with them if the feeling's mutual. This process could take about 3-6 months. However, I decided to try dating through apps like Hinge.

I recently started going on dates with someone who I'd known for 3 weeks (we'd been on 3 dates so far). I'm unsure of when is an appropriate time to talk to my date about the status of our relationship and when it should become official.

Is 3 months of dating too soon to decide if it should be a serious relationship? Is 8 months too long that it becomes a situationship?

My boyfriend and I (who are in a long distance relationship - please don’t judge - ) have this mutual online male friend that will not let me use any kind of affection towards my boyfriend in his discord server. I used to have feelings for our mutual male friend, but realized it would never work out and got over him. I then began dating my boyfriend and our male friend tried to make my boyfriend look like the bad guy and made me look like the innocent one in every little conflict that he’d create in his mind as a problem even though there was none. It seemed like he tried to break us up, even going as far as asking me out on April Fool’s Day.

Now he won’t let me use “affections in the chat” as he likes to say. I get why he says it to this one female friend of ours because she’s kinda obsessed with him, but I can’t call my own boyfriend babe. I have to use his real name. He won’t even allow me to go on discord voice chat when my boyfriend goes into discord voice call. I am starting to get very irritated by this and I don’t know what to do.

*Note: he has a girlfriend by the way*