Saturday, February 19, 2011

What is NSA? - Part 3

Part 3 - Level of Commitment

Does NSA mean no commitment??  Well, that depends on what type and what level of commitment we're talking about.  In any relationship the type of commitment can generally be categorized as Time, Emotional, Financial, and Legal.  And the level of commitment in each category can define what type of relationship it is.  For example, in a casual dating relationship there is usually not a lot of time and emotional commitment, and certainly no financial and legal commitment.  On the other end of the spectrum, a marriage requires a high level of time, emotional, financial, and ultimately legal commitment.

So where does NSA sugar relationships fit in?  Generally speaking, the level of time and emotional commitment is similar to casual dating, but there is a certain amount of financial commitment depending on the arrangement.  It is somewhere between casual dating and committed relationship as the following table illustrates.


                                           Casual         NSA Sugar          Committed           
                                           Dating         Relationship        Relationship         Marriage


Time commitment               Low            Low-Medium         Medium-High             High

Emotional commitment       Low                  Low                Medium-High            High

Financial commitment        None           Depend on the       Low-Medium            High
                                                               Arrangement
Legal commitment              None                 None                    None                 YES

2 comments:

  1. wow... did you seriously create a table on this! hahaha such a dork

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  2. LOL... it wasn't that hard to create a table and I thought it was the best way to get my point across.

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