Tag: dating

“Instead of swiping, the strategy is wiping: namely, one’s perspiration onto a cotton pad.”

Newly single in her mid-50s, Pam Mandel swipes through dozens of selfies, including her own.

A Childless Millennial’s Guide to Falling Apart at Disney World

Jacqueline Alnes shares her own dating app experiences and nine stories about the pitfalls of finding a partner online.

Brick had gotten a new jaw, nose, and cheekbones from a surgeon in California, costing him around $30,000, and still he was furious at women and the world.

Never eat pot chocolate on a third date, and other lessons about love.

Some of the trappings might change, but you at 27 is fundamentally you at 37 is you at 47. La plus ça change!

A declaration of dependence, excerpted from Briallen Hopper’s new essay collection.

Jennifer Chong Schneider considers what it is to be Asian, maligned, and fetishized in dating — and questions her own desire when she dates someone of her own ethnicity for the first time.

Sarah Kasbeer reflects on a history of hookups — and why they left her cold.

When women end relationships, it seems like the emotion we most acutely feel is the guilt of having pushed it away.

Shelly Oria shares a manual for life after you’ve left your husband and your girlfriend.

In my teens I was upset that I was too young to go out with any of the boys in my favorite bands. Now they’re all with women who weren’t even born when I had that thought.

Emily Meg Weinstein considers the complexities of meeting and greeting in this #MeToo moment.

Britney Wilson considers the lessons she learned while taking a risk on romance.

I was introducing all my friends, but had no idea how to be in a good relationship.

Minda Honey assesses the deliberate choices and external factors affecting her dating life.

Dating after a Big Love ends never feels quite right. What do big loves leave us with, and what do they take?

“I’ve lived in Seattle for seven years, single most of them. The only thing that has changed is the increase in men I’d never want to go out on a date with.”

New technology and information access in the Philippines is shifting the online-dating power dynamic from Western men to Filipina women.

Andrew Kay found himself on the dating scene and the academic job market at the time time, living life as one long interview.

Today’s young Muslims are finding ways to develop romantic relationships and while observing Islamic beliefs forbidding pre-marital sex.

Fresh from a go-nowhere relationship, Gemma Sieff writes an engrossing personal essay in Harper’s about her passing encounters with a series of men she met on Tinder.

Looking for love in all the wrong places? Zheping Huang attempts to find a wife at the Love and Marriage Expo in Shanghai, China.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. 1. “Love Me Tinder.” (Emily Witt, GQ, January 2014) The denizens of Tinder in all their weird, wild, witty glory. 2. “Dating While Trans: The Doldrums.” (Audrey Arndt, The Toast, May 2014) For a long time, Audrey openly described herself as transgender in her OKCupid profile. 3. “Forever Single: DATING […]

A woman reflects on the virtues and limits of online dating: I went on a date with a classical composer who invited me to a John Cage concert at Juilliard. After the concert we looked for the bust of Béla Bartók on 57th Street. We couldn’t find it, but he told me how Bartók had […]

So the way my father used to tell it, my parents’ second date went something like this: My father was positively smitten after his blind date with my mother, and wanting to spend as much time with her as possible made sure that the activity for date number two was an all-day event. This being […]