As Taylor Swift once said, “’Tis the damn season”—by which I mean cuffing season , to be specific. And speaking of “’Tis the Damn Season,” ’tis also the damn season to go home for the holidays and rekindle a potentially risky flame with an ex.

As it turns out, this relatable if not necessarily advisable experience that Taylor immortalized on Evermore actually has a name: “winter coating.”

Like “ sledging ” (cuffing someone with the intention of breaking up by spring), winter coating is considered a variant of cuffing—one that isn’t necessarily reflective of cuffing season best practices and may or may not be downright toxic. But as we’ve previously discussed, few things are really ever as simple as good or bad, toxic or non-toxic when it comes to anything involving love and datin

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