Right Now in Dating
- Apps
How to Tell If a Match Is Using AI to Write Their Messages
- Culture
Is It Still Weird to Ask Someone Out in Real Life?
- Advice
What to Do When a Match Goes Quiet After Two Great Dates
- Apps, Tested
The Case for Deleting Every App but One
- Dating After 50
Which Dating Apps Are Worth Trying After 50?
- First Dates
Hinge Prompts That Actually Start a Conversation
What Everyone Gets Wrong About the First Ten Minutes of a Date
Nerves, small talk and the decision you make before the drinks arrive: a field guide to the part of the date that quietly decides the rest.
Photo: Unsplash+ [photographer credit to confirm]
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Apps, Tested
Hinge vs Bumble: Which One Should You Actually Use?
Who you’ll meet, what you’ll pay, and where each one falls short.
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Relationships
Should You Ever Go Back to an Ex?
The honest checklist before you reply to that text.
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Apps
Dating App Burnout Is Real. Here’s How to Reset
When swiping starts to feel like admin.
Most Popular
Order illustrative [analytics-driven]
Apps, Tested
Who you’ll meet, what you’ll pay and whether it’s right for you. The homework, done before you join.
Hinge vs Bumble: Which One Should You Actually Use?
Same goal, different rules. Who you’ll meet, what’s free, what costs extra and where each one falls short.
Choose Hinge if [criteria from completed testing]. Choose Bumble if [criteria from completed testing].
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Is It Worth It? Is Hinge+ Worth It? What You Get, and What You Don’t
Price [verify]. The features that change your odds, and the ones that don’t.
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Review Is Cougar Life Worth Trying?
Who’s actually on it, how pricing works and what to know before paying.
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Best Of Which Dating Apps Are Worth Trying After 50?
Active members, ease of use, price, and whether a specialist app is worth it.
Where should you start?
Every review answers three questions: who you’ll meet, what you’ll pay and whether it’s right for you.
How we reviewStart with our picks for serious relationships.
Compare who uses them, what they cost and the trade-offs to know before you join.
Real Dating Lives
First dates, breakups and everything between, told by the people who lived them.
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Stock photo First Dates“I Almost Cancelled. By the Second Drink, I Was Glad I Hadn’t.”
[Name], [age], [city]
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Exit Interview “We Broke Up Over a Streaming Password. It Wasn’t About the Password.”
[Name], [age], [city]
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Dating After 50 “I Rewrote My Profile Again and Again. Then I Told the Truth.”
[Name], [age], [city]
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Long Distance “We Had One Rule: No Goodnight Texts.”
[Names], [cities]
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Second Time Around “Dating After Divorce Felt Like Learning a New Language.”
[Name], [age], [city]
The Adviser
Frank answers to the questions you type into Google at 1 a.m.
What Dating Looks Like Right Now
Original data on how people meet, what they want and how dating is changing across America.
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of [respondents] [the headline finding, in one sentence]
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- Money
The Real Cost of Dating in America
- Behaviour
Ghosting, Measured
- Place
Where Dating Is Easiest, City by City
The Latest
First Dates First Date Ideas That Aren’t Just Drinks
Profiles What Your Dating App Photos Are Actually Saying
Texting How Soon Is Too Soon to Text After a First Date?
Relationships The Green Flags Worth More Than Chemistry