The period before dating in which two people text constantly and are not anything — the talking stage — as Gen Z's name for a state that older generations called 'seeing someone' and did with less texting. The record's entry for the relationship that is all conversation.
Filed as evidence: a job listing that asked candidates to demonstrate "Talking Stage energy". Screenshot attached. The listing has since been edited.
The definition implies everyone used Talking Stage the same way. They did not. There were at least two camps by the second month, and they did not like each other.
The record notes the talking stage can last a fortnight or eight months, that it ends in a date or a ghost, and that 'we were talking' is now a valid answer to 'what happened'.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
