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Situationship Ada Shehi Situationship – more than a crush … but less than a relationship. (Hammer, 2021) The word situationship came to existence when the 21-year-old Alana Morrison on the show Love Island USA, on July 10, 2019, she stated “I’ve never had a proper relationship. I’ve been in situationships but never an actual relationship.” This word became a hashtag on twitter and more people, especially young adults have used it to express their personal involvement with others. This is a word describing the relationship where no full commitment is being established but the importance of reoccurrence makes it relevant to the personal and romantic life of the adolescent. During this time, the individual is trying to explore the ways to learn about oneself and is going through anatomical, physiological, and endocrinological changes which lead to sexual drives to explore fantasies. During adolescence, the individual tries to clarify their sexual identity and find a sexual partner, which can lead to identify the person’s personality. The early stage of adolescence, known as puberty about twelve to fourteen years of age, is generally seen as the time of psycho-sexual changes where there is a greater influence into the psychic development of the person’s personality. Freud defines that a person’s personality is structured with lines as a marble and it could break into pieces when thrown on the ground because of underlining preexisting structures. (Waddell, p. 158). The individual starts to create the invisible lines that determines their personality at the most earlier relationship creates, the one with their mother. At different stages of life, people identify their persona related to the relationships or people present in their life and some time it is important to see oneself in the person’s or character’s shoes. The mother is the first persona who a baby has a relationship with and who serves as a role model into developing a individual’s personality. Later in life any relationships or encounters with
