Does 'seeing someone' mean you are going out with them?! Help an oldie out

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Are they the same things? Or is 'seeing someone' more casual?

Casual. Seeing someone is one step up from talking to someone but not yet in a relationship. Yes, I know, me neither lol

dating but not exclusive is always what I’ve taken it to mean

To me it's also dating but not exclusive.

Ah ok. So boyfriends/girlfriends are exclusive and they are going out.

Thank you!

Going against the grain, I've always used it as dating exclusively but early days. Not a partner yet, but a bit more than casual.

It depends who told you. That might use 'seeing someone' to mean 'It's really serious but I'm testing the waters to see what your reaction might be'.

Dating someone but haven't had the exclusive chat.

I'm in an exclusive relationship with "the bloke I'm seeing", and have been for 2.5 years. We don't live together. I'm late 40's, he is mid-50's. If he is asked to "name" me in context to our relationship he'd say I'm his partner.

To me seeing someone is exclusive.

It's all very complicated now, isn't it?

I must be getting old. I've always assumed that if I was dating someone then it would mean we were exclusive.

I'm a dinosaur and have never got used to the idea that if you are dating someone then it needn't be exclusive.
Back in my day if you were seeing someone you weren't also seeing other people.

I'm glad my dating days are over - married nearly 40 years.

Yes, I would be quite miffed if I wasn't the centre of attention

Getting old here too, I've never had the "exclusive chat". If you went on more than one date with someone it was assumed to be exclusive, not necessarily serious though.

I did online dating last year and there seemed to be so many rules that my now boyfriend knew and I didn’t. First there was the exclusive chat which made us ‘an item’ then we had a ‘where we are chat’ then we had what he called ‘the feelings chat’. At some point after the exclusive chat he started to call himself my ‘boyfriend’ now he calls us ‘partners’ and we have had a serious ‘future, where we’re going’ talk. When it was the 90s I just snogged someone at a party, he instantly became my boyfriend and other than a proposal no other conversation was necessary. At least when my dc are old enough to date (in many years time) I will understand.

Seeing someone is dating. That's what I thought.

I'm an oldie and I've always assumed "seeing someone" and "going out" are one and the same. That said, I don't get this whole "exclusive" thing nowadays because I grew up in an era when that was always just assumed and expected anyway.