Stories: interviews and real dating experiences
How people really meet, get let down and try again. Interviews with dating app users and first-person columns: real experience, not rules.
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In conversation
Interviews
Conversations with people who use dating apps: what works for them, where the scammers lurk, and the rules they’ve made for themselves.
First interviews coming soon.
First person
Dating stories
Columns written by the people who lived them: how they meet, where it goes wrong and why they keep trying.
About this section
Statistics tell us how many people use dating apps. These stories show what it actually feels like: how people choose who to swipe on, why the second date never happens, which red flags taught them to spot a scammer, and what they do when hundreds of matches never turn into a relationship.
All stories reflect the personal experience and views of the people telling them, not advice from our editors.
Your story
Got a story to tell?
Good, bad or just plain strange: tell us how you met, or didn’t. You can use a pen name. We’ll help shape the text and only publish it with your approval.