hooking up with someone repeatedly when one or both partners have an emotional attachment to their partner; i.e. one-night stands and other sexual encounters with no promise of commitment over a number of years. usually leads to heartbreak, drama, pining, and complaints about having wasted energy over a relationship.
1) They've been hooking up since freshman year of college. We've graduated and live in New York now. Six years! This isn't just your casual one-night stand anymore...this is a hookup of attrition.
2) Don't pay attention to her when she talks about that guy. Their relationship is a hookup of attrition.
3) He's hitting himself upside the head because his hookup of attrition is being a bitch again.
2) Don't pay attention to her when she talks about that guy. Their relationship is a hookup of attrition.
3) He's hitting himself upside the head because his hookup of attrition is being a bitch again.
by countingtheleavesinherhair August 9, 2010
Get the hookup of attrition mug.A film sub-genre in which the characters are picked off one by one, often by a masked killer or malignant force. Salient examples: Friday the 13th (Jason); Final Destination (Death); Sunshine (the Sun).
Coined by Tasha Robinson of the AV Club to describe Danny Boyle's film "Sunshine"(2007).
Coined by Tasha Robinson of the AV Club to describe Danny Boyle's film "Sunshine"(2007).
Originating quote, from the review of "Sunshine"(2007) -
In many ways, Sunshine is a been-there-done-that cast-attrition thriller: Alien with an exterior monster instead of an interior one, Event Horizon with better effects and less gore, Pitch Black with the contrast turned way up. The cast members make wry jokes about getting eliminated one at a time, horror-movie style, but they still follow all the horror-movie procedures, even duly splitting up in a dangerous, unknown situation. It's like they've gracefully accepted that they're just hitting a series of predestined, genre-mandated marks. - Tasha Robinson, Onion A.V. Club
In many ways, Sunshine is a been-there-done-that cast-attrition thriller: Alien with an exterior monster instead of an interior one, Event Horizon with better effects and less gore, Pitch Black with the contrast turned way up. The cast members make wry jokes about getting eliminated one at a time, horror-movie style, but they still follow all the horror-movie procedures, even duly splitting up in a dangerous, unknown situation. It's like they've gracefully accepted that they're just hitting a series of predestined, genre-mandated marks. - Tasha Robinson, Onion A.V. Club
by PhD (Pretentious hipster Douchebag) September 4, 2007
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by MrOldMan December 11, 2023
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Guess what, Tony... that new water works plant passed after we left. We didn't have enough Nays to stop it before we had to leave, and then "opposition attrition" kicked in, leaving the usuals who coulda stayed till noon enough Ayes to ram it through.
by Zappin' Nap July 23, 2023
Get the Opposition Attrition mug.This isn't just a "breakup" or "low-frequency communication." This is the definitive state of being 'Love-Hungered' where one partner’s nonchalance erodes the other’s self-worth until only silence remains. It is the definition of a soul being tired of waiting for a ghost to become a person again. This is for anyone who has ever loved a shadow.
I tell you, its not pride...
I'm not good... won't be a lie to say I haven't been this worse in my entire life.
The last year gone hasnt been good at all
And neither have I been
I don't text you because that will kill the 'minuscule' self-esteem left lying somewhere in me.
The last time we met and I told you I felt unwanted, you never turned to clarify or comfort me.
UD isn't the key here. I'm done with the love of my life being ambiguous, unavailable for eons. Nonchalance is the way to go these days, i know but maybe not for souls like me, who love truly and deeply.
If pride still keeps you from a text or reaching out, I would say dont do it then. Not worth the trouble if the result is the same.
We know how it begins and ends everytime... we dont have words for each other because we have gotten used to be on a stage and write for others to read. The comfort of each other's company lost before fully forming.
What kind of 1221 do you yearn for with ghosting?
I tell you, its not pride...
I'm not good... won't be a lie to say I haven't been this worse in my entire life.
The last year gone hasnt been good at all
And neither have I been
I don't text you because that will kill the 'minuscule' self-esteem left lying somewhere in me.
The last time we met and I told you I felt unwanted, you never turned to clarify or comfort me.
UD isn't the key here. I'm done with the love of my life being ambiguous, unavailable for eons. Nonchalance is the way to go these days, i know but maybe not for souls like me, who love truly and deeply.
If pride still keeps you from a text or reaching out, I would say dont do it then. Not worth the trouble if the result is the same.
We know how it begins and ends everytime... we dont have words for each other because we have gotten used to be on a stage and write for others to read. The comfort of each other's company lost before fully forming.
What kind of 1221 do you yearn for with ghosting?
I have nothing to say to the moon but for you I say: 'if its fear dont let it win'
702 Soul Attrition (1)
702 Soul Attrition (1)
by Love you too January 19, 2026
Get the 702 Soul Attrition mug.Its the gradual erosion of a person's core self-worth caused by prolonged emotional ambiguity from someone they love.
Unlike a clean break, Soul Attrition is a slow fading of the spirit where "true and deep" love is met with eons of unavailability and nonchalance. It is the exhaustion of being on a stage where the script is silence and the comfort is lost before it ever takes shape. For the souls who stayed until there was nothing left to give.
Unlike a clean break, Soul Attrition is a slow fading of the spirit where "true and deep" love is met with eons of unavailability and nonchalance. It is the exhaustion of being on a stage where the script is silence and the comfort is lost before it ever takes shape. For the souls who stayed until there was nothing left to give.
The moon just sees me forlorn aching, burning, melting, missing you every minute of every day. It asks me why do you wait for a message that won't come at 1121.
If I'm the poet why doesnt my poem echo back to me? And I ask thee 'if you still dont know yourself, when will you my life's expression?'
702 Soul Attrition (2)
If I'm the poet why doesnt my poem echo back to me? And I ask thee 'if you still dont know yourself, when will you my life's expression?'
702 Soul Attrition (2)
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