love and dating
We blunt romance and passion with this constant calculation of risk, this paranoid scanning for threats, and by holding back to avoid being hurt. We encourage each other to be emotionally absent, unfazed, uncaring. We even call it empowerment! It’s not. It’s neuroticism. I think we are a generation absolutely terrified of getting hurt and doing all... See more
Freya India • Risk-Aversion Is Killing Romance - By Freya India - GIRLS
Love asks for heat. Left cold, we harden into our existing shape. But under the steady warmth of attention, we soften, loosen, and take on new form. The right gaze reorganises the self; you begin to recognise yourself more clearly in their eyes, and they in yours. Each becomes more singular by being seen, a longing to inhabit the silhouette cast by... See more
maja • Some Parts of You Only Emerge for Certain People
hers is the right attitude: you do not like a category. You like individuals. And you’re not born knowing which kind.
Henrik Karlsson • Looking for Alice
A recent @glassdoor poll has uncovered some interesting new research about how workers are overcoming today’s stressful job market.
Seemingly because of how difficult it is for workers to currently find a job, nearly one-third of people are resorting to finding work on dating apps.
In a... See more
impactinstagram.comI want something quieter and harder to counterfeit: the intensity of attention that notices the quiver of a wrist when reaching for a glass; the presence that enlarges an ordinary afternoon; the appetite that doesn’t require catastrophe to be vivid. I want Romanticism stripped of its operatic melodrama, no consumptive poets dying by candlelight,... See more
Romanticism Is Not A Weakness
Love embraces slowness, likely even demands it. So why are we all in such a rush?
I Went to One of Tinder’s In-Person Dating Events. What I Saw Will Haunt All My Days.
Magdalene Taylorslate.com
Dating apps try to hop on the growing apathy towards dating apps by hosting IRL events. Does it work or doesn’t? Will this year be the fall of dating apps? Will a new dating platform (used loosely) emerge?