Love is so wonderful, right? We love it. We love love. I've been lucky in love. I've had a good life of love. Long term relationships. Two years and then four years and then five and a half years, and then nine years in the last couple of years been tough. So I'm online dating really the first time, and it's so not sexy and it's digital and it's weird
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 4:26
And I'm in the generation of people where it's like, all of us have tried online dating at one point or just never have, which is interesting. So I have some friends where they met their partner, like in College, or if they went straight to grad school in grad school, and they just never tried it, never really dated outside of that
Charlie Floyd
@damonnomad · 4:45
Once you interject that you've gone from human interaction being, like, liquid to that s*** going to a gaseous state, and you have to realize that is not, like, really a moral thing. The moral thing will show up on your a** on these f****** apps, though, you have realized that you have significantly underestimated what degree that males will show you their genitals on Grindr
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:00
I think it's just one way to experience the world this way, but it's not tangible and you have to come to it with a sense of wonder. I think knowing his limitations and keeping your eyes closed for things that are inappropriate. I just love the variety of the first two comments on here couldn't be more different in a lot of ways. It's just awesome. Thank you both
Alyssa Reyes
@mediamind · 1:16
But if I had any advice, I would just say don't take anything serious until after a couple of days or after you talk to them for a while. And I say this because just because when I was doing it, you're all on the app or wherever you're on a website and you're all trying to look for love, right? You're all trying to find a relationship. So everyone's in different waters, everyone's talking to different people at the same time
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:23
That when you do finally connect with someone where you feel a real connection. At least for me, it definitely is hard not to get invested too quickly, too fast. So I think that is brilliant advice. And it's definitely something now that I'm back to dating and open to creating new connections and partnerships that I really am taking to heart. So thank you for the reminder. It's
Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 4:01
Hey, Deborah, this made me smile and also have memories. And I saw you post this, and I meant to respond. My desk Disclaimer right before I say what I'm going to say is that I haven't done any online dating in the last two years. And some change because I've been with someone. But I thought it was fun. I thought it was pretty fun and efficient
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 0:53
Damon. Wow. That was like a. That was like a whole a** sermon. That was, wow. Digital rum Springer and a bar in your pocket. That is. I mean, that's deep. And that's. That's real. And I have heard, like, this. I know friends that are on Grinder. That's just what you described. Yeah. I think from my experience. Right
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:55
So there's this level of strange availability and flexibility that isn't present in real world experiences that I think you both are nodding to right now, which gives me sort of the indication that I should just I'm glad I posted this because it's kind of lightened up everything for me. It's gotten it out of my little dark corner, and now I feel like, okay, I'm online dating. It's what it is. I'm having fun. And let's see what happens
Ophelia Johnson
@LadyO · 2:54
Oh, Deborah, this well was so on time. It's so funny because I've been thinking about getting back on a dating app, but it's difficult here in Qatar because a lot of people are transient, so they're here for maybe two to three years, and they know they're not going to be here for a long time. So they're not really interested in investing in a real relationship. So you just wind up just going on, like dates and things like that
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:26
We can feel things when we look at someone's face and what the choice of words they choose to use when they describe themselves and to keep buoyancy there, keep the lightness, keep the sense of I'm complete, I'm good. I'm all good. And I can't wait to share a moment with someone who's right for me. But those that aren't, let's not even waste our time. But yeah, good luck. Get out there
jamie church
@jemecherche · 4:51
Oh, my gosh. Yes. This I'm very comfortable online. I've done online dating a bazillion times, and it never works for me. Part of the reason that it doesn't work for me so well is because my sexuality is not the typical standard sexuality. I'm asexual. I'm on the spectrum of asexuality neuro divergent. There's a lot. There's a lot