Recent celebrity headlines have been dominated by "contract romances" and messy, public breakups that seem to vanish as quickly as they began. While we call these "PR Relationships" in Hollywood, psychologists have a different term for this dynamic in the real world: Transactional Relationships. You might not be walking a red carpet, but you can still find yourself in a relationship where you are being used for status, emotional validation, or a "rebound" fix. How do you distinguish between genuine intimacy and psychological manipulation? Here are the 5 signs, decoded with professional terminology.