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You can’t Tinder your way into a relationship. Trust me, I’ve tried.

“Dating apps are awesome,” said NO ONE EVER.

Lauren Holliday
12 min readDec 25, 2021

Have you been using Tinder, Bumble and/or Hinge off-and-on since forever, with nothing — scratch that, no one — to show for it?! Then keep reading…

Like you, I’ve been using dating apps off-and-on for the past seven years, yet I’m still single af despite being a cute, smart, independent, fun woman (aka the total package ;).

Unfortunately, dating apps (or “hookup” apps as my brother refers to them) seem to be the only way to meet people in this post-COVID hell we’re living in.

So at the beginning of the year, after starting work with a new client in the dating and relationship space (and swiping through 67,899 guys in two years… with nothing to show for it besides a loss of hope and depression), I began seriously thinking about why modern dating sucks so much and researching how I could meet high-quality single men in my city without downloading another app.

Here’s what I see as the fundamental problems with modern dating…

Dating apps don’t work.

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