Dating doesn't always come with rainbows, butterflies and a successful relationship. Sometimes, it ends in a valuable lesson. But, in the dating world, the ending has always been something dramatic and more often than not, bitter. Mountain of unread messages, abrupt disappearance, stonewalling, the end always came with resentment. However, the young daters are all about rewriting the preset rules and they are doing the same with the rules of rejection.

According to a survey by Indian dating app QuackQuack, about 51 per cent of dating app users from Tier 1, 2, and 3 cities described it as the soft exit season, where daters don't end a connection on a sour note but rather deal with it like mature adults. They claimed that instead of explosive confrontations and ruthless exit strategies, the modern daters communicate disinterest more subtly without crushing the other person.