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Hinge Is Making It Easier To Date From Home With This New Feature

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The Date That Only Lasted 10 Minutes

Welcome to 29 Dates, where we explore the weird, wild and sometimes wonderful world of dating — one date at a time. When I matched with a 32-year-old Tex

The Date Who Tried To Arrange A Hookup — During Our Date

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The Date Who Still Lived With His Ex

Welcome to 29 Dates, where we explore the weird, wild and sometimes wonderful world of dating — one date at a time. I hadn’t had a date in a while. Whi

The Date Where I Ditched My Date & Met Someone Else

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The Date That Took Me Two Years To Get Over

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The Date That Was My First One Sober

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The Date With My Crush’s Best Friend

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The Date Who Told Me He Loved Me…On Our First Date

He was 25, a guitarist (although not, to my knowledge, of any particular skill or renown) and French (to the extent that his dad was born in Toulouse befor

The Date Whose Girlfriend Was In A Coma

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The Date Where I Got Dumped

We’d been dating for about three months when he said he wanted to take me on a special date. He said he wanted to surprise me. He certainly did. He dumpe

The Date Who Asked Me The One Question I Couldn’t Answer

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The Date I Met On Public Transport & Married

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The Date Who Got Cold Feet, Maybe Because He Was Engaged

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The Date That Was Very Mediocre But Became A 9-Year Relationship

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The Date That I Thought Had Died

When we matched online, I was experiencing the death of a seven-year relationship. The last time I was single, dating involved falling into people in

The Date Who Asked Me For A Refund

A few years ago, I went on a date. We met up at a local bar for some drinks and he seemed pretty normal, but very boring. I wasn’t feeling a spark (parti

The Date Who Was Really After My Best Friend

I should’ve guessed he wasn’t the one the minute he said he listened to Nickelback. It was the afternoon before the date and our texting was ge

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If you’re single and dating, you’ve probably been ghosted at some point. You might have been haunted (that’s when a ghost keeps lurking your soci

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Curving: Another Terrible Dating Trend

Ghosting, breadcrumbing, paperclipping, stashing… get ready to add another dating term to your vocabulary: curving. First documented by Brittany Cox of T

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If you’ve ever been on a date with someone you met on an app, you’ve probably had a well-intentioned friend or family member ask you, “Are you sure i

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