'My boyfriend safety pins his socks together': 25+ Gen Z couples share their partner's 'beige flags', proving that benign, day-to-day love is the most wholesome love of all

Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor

Jun 3, 2023 9:00 AM EDT

You're probably wondering what a 'beige flag' is. Well, everyone knows what green and red flags are in a relationship, good and bad things about a person (respectively), but a beige flag is its own classification of romantic personality traits in a person that actually feel a little benign. Beige flags are the little quirks about you that are repeatable and predictable. To someone who loves you, a beige flag is endearing and cute, but also sort of dumb and silly. It's something that makes you take a 3 second pause before looking at your partner and asking them what they're doing. But of course, you've already asked them that because this isn't your first time witnessing their beige flags.

Does your boyfriend take any chance to make a dad joke? Beige. Does your girlfriend act like a cat sometimes? Begging for cuddles one minute and then despising you the next? Definitely a beige flag. Or maybe your man is so chivalrous that he goes overboard a little? Beige.

Scroll to check out these couple's favorite beige flags about their partner, giving wholesome butterflies to all who read on.