Con Or Compliment?

Nikita D’silva elaborates on an undignified dating trend making the rounds

- Nikita D’Silva

Have you ever heard such remarks? If you’re nodding, know that you’re a victim of negging. The urban dictionary describes this flirting method as, ‘low-grade insults meant to undermine the self-confidence of a woman so she might be more vulnerable to your advances.’ Dr. Seema Hingorany, author and clinical psychologist with a private practice in Mumbai, elaborates on this toxic dating pattern. “Negging is an abbreviation of ‘negative comments’, and is an extremely unhealthy and harmful dating behavior, whereby a person in a relationship puts the partner down by being overly critical and undermining the person’s self-worth or bypassing indirect comments which hurt or devalue the other person.”

SIGNS YOU’RE A VICTIM OF NEGGING

Backhanded compliments