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The social expectation that a romantic [relationship] should automatically follow a set of steps and lead to marriage, parenthood, and home ownership. This term is used primarily by people who want to get "off the escalator," who want to judge the success of [relationships] by criteria other than how smoothly and automatically the [relationship] gets more serious. One sample template is "Meet someone > Dating > Sex > Move in together > Get married > Have kids" Doing these things out of order is being off the relationship escalator: if you have sex on a first date, many people think your relationship can't, or shouldn't, eventually become more serious. If you move in with someone, moving back out again usually means that the relationship is over. Being polyamorous or participating in other kinds of non-monogamy is also being off the relationship escalator.
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