Love
Why your situationship has a Mercury problem
The mixed signals aren't in your head. They might, however, be in the sky.
Kim·July 7, 2026
A situationship is, astrologically speaking, a Venus problem wearing a Mercury costume. The feelings are real; the communication is the part that keeps short-circuiting.
When Mercury goes retrograde, the gap between what someone means and what they text widens into a canyon. If you've been decoding a three-word reply for two days, that's not obsession, that's just the transit doing its job.
The move is not to send the paragraph. The move is to wait until Mercury stations direct and see if they still text like that. Clarity is a season, not a favor.