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Every generation eventually reaches the point where it decides that all of human history has been doing something wrong. Boomers reinvented work. Gen X reinvented cynicism. Millennials reinvented therapy. And now Gen Z has looked at dating—a practice that's been confusing people since two cavemen awkwardly made eye contact—and decided the problem wasn't the people. It was the vocabulary. Enter the "chalant relationship." If you've somehow managed to avoid TikTok for the last week, congratulations on your blood pressure. The term is basically the opposite of "nonchalant." Instead of pretending you don't care, you're supposed to actually care. You text back because you want to. You express affection without acting like it's beneath you. You communicate instead of deploying psychological warfare through delayed responses and cryptic Instagram stories. In other words... We've officially invented a trendy label for behaving like a reasonably m...