Dating & Singles

Have you ever fallen in love with a friend? Falling in love with a friend is one of the harder human experiences to have. It happens to a lot of people and there’s no way to tell at the beginning how it’s going to go. If you think you might be falling in love with

When you start dating someone new, the experience can feel wildly different from the last time you dated. This is especially true if you’ve been away from the field for a while. But humans are predictable, and our relationships fall into patterns. What stage of dating are you in? There are five stages of love

Online dating is now mainstream, but are you feeling overwhelmed by choice? Online dating is no longer a fringe activity—people young and old use online dating services and apps to meet up because they are fast, cheap, and easy. Also, online dating has developed over the years from something sketchy to mostly legit. People who

Are you on a one-way road to the “friend zone”? You’ve probably heard of the “friend zone”, right? It’s the ultimate relationship limbo. The friend zone is that place you find yourself in when the guy or girl you’ve been interested in has decided that you’re friendship material, instead of relationship material. Maybe you’ve never been

Online dating has become such a social norm it seems like meeting a mate by chance in a bar is now the exception. Online dating does work—many successful marriages have started that way—but there is a degree of uncertainty to it. The Internet allows anyone to fabricate a gender, age, location, and appearance. So how do

There’s a new term floating around the modern dating scene, kind of a revamping of the phrase “stringing along.” The word is “breadcrumbing,”. Breadcrumbing refers to the very old fairy tale (which was probably true) of Hansel and Gretel, two children abandoned in a forest. As their father led them deeper into the woods, they

 Isn’t it time you put some fun and romance back into Valentine’s Day? At some point, for most couples, date night goes from fun and exciting to “Um, what do you want to do?” If you have busy jobs and families it’s even hard to make time for a date, and just planning it out

Researchers from the University of North Texas have discovered some interesting findings in one of the first studies of the hugely popular dating app Tinder. They found that men who use the app are most at risk for lowered self-esteem. The research findings seem to contradict past research, which has shown that women’s self-perceptions tend to

A survey from the University of Texas on engagements and weddings ask engaged and newly married people to say what they considered was the ultimate display of being committed in their relationship and to their partner. The interesting results above show that 36% of respondents believed that exchanging bling or any other type of jewellery was