Question: I heard this exchange from a TV show:

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> **Woman A**: You are a smart, beautiful woman. You don't have to **settle**.
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> **Woman B**: I'm not **settling**.
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The context is that Woman A is trying to persuade B not to date a famous guy anymore, because that guy has already married and has not made any promise to marry her. 

I looked up dictionaries, but it seems that none of definitions could fit for the context. 

So, what does **settle** mean here? 

Thanks!

Answer: 
Your example doesn't mix the rules for future progressive and future perfect.  Instead, it combines the rules for the future tense and the passive voice.  

The future tense typically involves using some verb or verb phrase that carries a future-tense meaning along with an infinitive verb or verb phrase.  

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> I will amaze you.  
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>  I shall amaze you.  
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>  I am going to amaze you. 
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The auxiliaries "will" and "shall" license a bare infinitive.  The verb phrase "am going" isn't an auxiliary, so it licenses a full infinitive.  All three of these examples employ the future tense, active voice, indefinite aspect and indicative mode.  

The passive voice typically involves using some form of the verb *to be* followed by a so-called past participle form.  

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> You were amazed. -- past tense, something amazed you  
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>  You are amazed. -- present tense, something amazes you  
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>  You are going to be amazed. -- future tense, something will amaze you 
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> You will be amazed. 
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This follows both sets of conventions.  It has a verb that indicates the future tense followed by an infinitive: "will" + "be". It also has some form of *to be* followed by a past participle: "be" + "amazed".  

We can even add the perfect aspect to the future tense and passive voice.  The perfect aspect is marked by some form of the verb *to have* followed by a past participle.  On its own, it looks like this:

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> I have amazed you. 
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Combining all three looks like this:

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> You will have been amazed. 
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A future-tense verb followed by an infinitive: "will" + "have" = future.  

A form of *to have* followed by a past participle: "have" + "been" = perfect.  

A form of *to be* followed by a past participle: "been" + "amazed" = passive.
The future perfect is a rare tense in that it refers to an action in the future that is expected or promised to happen before another action. The passive form of the future perfect is very rare. The future progressive is less rare, but the passive form is far from common.

All future tenses start with "will" or "shall."

All perfect tenses end with the past participle of the principal verb and are preceded by some form of "have."

All passive forms end with the past participle of the principal verb and are preceded by some form of the "be."

All passive perfects end with "been" plus the past participle of the principal verb and are preceded by some form of "have."

All progressive tenses end with the present participle of the principal verb and are preceded by some form of "be."

All passive progressives end with "being" plus the past participle of the principal verb and are preceded by some form of "be" other than "being."

"You (will/shall) amuse them." **Simple future indicative.**

"You (will/shall) be amused." **Simple future passive.**

"You (will/shall) be amusing them." **Future progressive indicative.**

"You (will/shall) be being amused." **Future progressive passive.**

"You (will/shall) have amused them." **Future perfect indicative.**

"You (will/shall) have been amused." **Future perfect passive.**