The passage itself is a warning given by Joshua to the Israelites, but it is frequently applied as a metaphor for romantic "storylines" and relationship building:

– The day her funding was cut. The day her laptop crashed. And the day, two weeks before November 23rd, that she found a note slipped under her lab door: “I’ve been watching you watch me. Coffee? – M.”

This is a relationship of .

They broke up for thirteen days. No contact. Lena threw away the napkin. Mateo stopped signing his texts with moons.