Being benching pilled means you've been thoroughly initiated into the reality of benching — either by getting benched yourself or by deep-diving into enough dating discourse to recognize the patterns with ruthless clarity. The benching pilled person sees it everywhere now: in texts, in body language, in the absence of 'so what are we'. They can't unlearn it. They clock benching behavior in the first two weeks of any situationship and they've accepted this as a feature of modern dating, not a bug. Being benching pilled makes you more cautious, a better friend to others being benched, and probably more suspicious of anyone who texts inconsistently.
I'm fully benching pilled at this point — the moment someone says 'I've just been really busy lately' I know exactly what's happening.
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