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Dating as a Millennial; Is Dating Dead and Who is to Blame?
Breaking up sucks yet dating may suck even more, especially if you are new to it. This an excerpt of my book Dating After a Decade, a story that dives into the up’s and down’s of getting back in ‘the game’ after being out of it for 10 years.
Last year, this time, I was planning the rest of my life with my boyfriend of almost 11 years. Flash forward, a year later, and I’m single, trying to wrap my mind around the dating scene, or I should say the hookup scene.
When I became single most of my friends pushed me to create dating profiles for different dating apps and websites, they taught me how to text a guy (never call), and explained all the different terminology like ghosting, bench-warming, love-bombing, and more. I was also told, time over and over, that “dating has died” and that I needed “to adapt” and “toughen up” to how things are now.
For almost 11 years I lived in a little love bubble where I only heard horror stories of dating. Now that my bubble has popped, and I am living in the world of hookup culture, I sometimes feel like I am visiting another dimension on this planet.
