The act of
taking a break in your current
relationship on the pretense of "improving yourself" or "we need space" to instead distant yourself from your partner to seek
better or newer romantic partners behind of a higher value to you, then
going back to your original partner when things
don't work out.
Used in
situations where your
romantic partner lies to you on needing a break for
self improvement reasons
but instead seeks other romantic partners.
the act of doing this is called "making a lexi move" / "pulling a lexi"