Now we are not here to talk about basketball or sports, although I do love sports!

Being benched is probably one of the most frustrating things that can happen while dating. What is being benched? If you don’t know this term it either means that you have never experienced it (consider yourself lucky) or you have been benched but you had no idea it was happening to you. In the case of the latter, maybe ignorance is bliss.

Imagine you’re on the basketball team and your coach decides to have every player on the team play during the game except you. Now imagine that you are dating a person that you are interested in but they dodge you several times, make excuses on why they can’t see you, or just flat out never respond to you unless they are ready. Now that my friends is what we call being benched.

It is totally sh*tty, but let’s be honest…we are all guilty of benching someone or being benched.