{"id":8643,"date":"2023-01-18T10:38:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T09:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/18\/dating-burnout-meet-the-people-who-ditched-the-apps-and-found-love-offline\/"},"modified":"2023-01-18T10:38:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T09:38:33","slug":"dating-burnout-meet-the-people-who-ditched-the-apps-and-found-love-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/18\/dating-burnout-meet-the-people-who-ditched-the-apps-and-found-love-offline\/","title":{"rendered":"Dating burnout: meet the people who ditched the apps \u2013 and found love offline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Internet dating can feel soul-destroying, unnerving and transactional. Couples explain how their love lives were transformed when they finally stopped swiping<\/p>\n

When Georgie Thorogood\u2019s date made a sleazy joke about \u201chorsey girls carrying whips\u201d, she knew it was time to make a hasty exit. After meeting Tom through a dating app in the summer of 2021, she had been hoping for some polite conversation over a few drinks, maybe some romantic chemistry if she was lucky. What she got was a two-hour rant about his ex-wife and some creepy innuendo. \u201cI knew straight away he wasn\u2019t for me. I politely told him I didn\u2019t want to see him again, but he took the rejection really badly. I work in music communications and at the time I was setting up a festival. He started getting aggressive and telling me that I was destined to fail,\u201d she says. \u201cI don\u2019t know how he could possibly know that, as he didn\u2019t ask me a single question about myself all night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her bad experience, which came after months of mindless swiping, was the final straw for Georgie, 40. \u201cNot only did I find dating apps<\/a> soul-destroying, I was also happy with my single life, so I decided to quit them completely and focus on that instead,\u201d she says. \u201cI found so many of the men on apps had serious issues, too. Another guy became abusive when I turned down an offer to meet for a walk in a remote location because it didn\u2019t feel safe. You never know who people are online.\u201d While Georgie acknowledges that people with emotional baggage aren\u2019t exclusive to dating sites, she feels the apps give them a chance to hide their bad behaviour. \u201cThe problem is that you don\u2019t have to reflect or make changes when something goes wrong \u2013 you can just swipe to the next person.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nInternet dating can feel soul-destroying, unnerving and transactional. Couples explain how their love lives were transformed when they finally stopped swiping
\nWhen Georgie Thorogood\u2019s date made a sleazy joke about \u201chorsey girls carrying whips\u201d, she knew it was time to make a hasty exit. After meeting Tom through a dating app in the summer of 2021, she had been hoping for some polite conversation over a few drinks, maybe some romantic chemistry if she was lucky. What she got was a two-hour rant about his ex-wife and some creepy innuendo. \u201cI knew straight away he wasn\u2019t for me. I politely told him I didn\u2019t want to see him again, but he took the rejection really badly. I work in music communications and at the time I was setting up a festival. He started getting aggressive and telling me that I was destined to fail,\u201d she says. \u201cI don\u2019t know how he could possibly know that, as he didn\u2019t ask me a single question about myself all night.\u201d
\nHer bad experience, which came after months of mindless swiping, was the final straw for Georgie, 40. \u201cNot only did I find dating apps soul-destroying, I was also happy with my single life, so I decided to quit them completely and focus on that instead,\u201d she says. \u201cI found so many of the men on apps had serious issues, too. Another guy became abusive when I turned down an offer to meet for a walk in a remote location because it didn\u2019t feel safe. You never know who people are online.\u201d While Georgie acknowledges that people with emotional baggage aren\u2019t exclusive to dating sites, she feels the apps give them a chance to hide their bad behaviour. \u201cThe problem is that you don\u2019t have to reflect or make changes when something goes wrong \u2013 you can just swipe to the next person.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Internet dating can feel soul-destroying, unnerving and transactional. Couples explain how their love lives were transformed when they finally stopped swiping When Georgie Thorogood\u2019s date made a sleazy joke about \u201chorsey girls carrying whips\u201d, she knew it was time to make a hasty exit. After meeting Tom through a dating app in the summer of …<\/p>\n

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