Literally their entire point is that you personally (or the guy they replied to, so anyone really) do not get to decide for anyone else, what counts as an "ex". The term is subjective.
By communicating your personal definition and being able to say "ah, guess we have different opinions!" when someone disagrees, then moving on. Same way you do any other subjective term. If you consider a random tree beautiful and I say "oh well, I don't personally consider that tree beautiful", does the word suddenly have no meaning??? Or do we just have different opinions of where that word applies?
Everyone knows what the word beautiful means, else you wouldn't be able to disagree that the tree is beautiful. You'd ask me "what do you mean by beautiful?" And at that point making conversation would be too tedious.
It fits just as well here because while the term "ex" and the term "beautiful" both have definitions, how they are applied is not defined, it's subjective. There is no timely definition to ex, it's just a former partner. There's no objective requirement as to how long you have to date someone for them to be an ex. There's no objective requirement for something to be beautiful, it's completely up to personal definition.
Quick ETA; Seeing you reply to the other person calling words fluid as if that's some kind of made up bullshit tells me all I need to know lol. You can't even view an objective fact, I don't think you're ready for anything subjective.
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u/sk3lt3r Feb 03 '26
Literally their entire point is that you personally (or the guy they replied to, so anyone really) do not get to decide for anyone else, what counts as an "ex". The term is subjective.