It's Complicated: Dating and Social Networks

At Burning Man, I met someone who has since become "someone special" - we've had some successful dates, enjoy each other's company, and it's generally awesome. I'll spare you all the details, but there's one thing I'm struggling with.

Social networks are great - I've found old friends, new friends, and more readers than if I were not out on things like Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, etc. Two of the three have this "relationship status" that I went to change this week. Let's look at the options:

• Single - you're not seeing anyone or no one long-term enough or intense enough for their feelings to get hurt if you were to see someone else.
• Married - you have a house, maybe some kids, and have been through a complicated and over-priced ceremony
• Engaged - you're planning an over-priced ceremony and everyone is stressed out
  
• In a relationship - you have a loving partner and it's been that way for some time
  
• In an Open Relationship - you have a loving partner and have relations with other people
• It's complicated - you don't fit into the above categories.

A lot of things go in that last category - from people who just met (like my case) or people who like animals (not my case). So, with great trepidation, I set my relationship status to "complicated" - and got bombarded by people asking what had happened.

Either I've been single too long or people have weird expectations of me. To get this out in the air:

• Yes, she's human
• Yes, she's a she
• No, she isn't married
• No, there isn't more than one of her
  

There we go. It's complicated because there's no better option. Anyone have a better description - like "I'm dating so-and-so"? IS "dating" even something we say anymore? Is it the parlance of our times?