Dating
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Because you have to be ready
No, I will not “go on dates” before I decide who someone “is as a person.” Who has the time for that? I just took a year off dating, and besides, I have leftovers to microwave and chin hair to pluck, I’m a busy lady.
Instead, I will follow the much simpler path of using a few tiny, irrelevant facts to project an entire personality and joyful future together onto my Hinge matches, as I’ve done with the following
The Ex-Jock-Turned-Sensitive-Nerd
Damien didn’t say anything about being a former jock, and he seemed neither sensitive nor smart, but still. He listed…
Pandemic Dating Diaries
I helped my sister get out of my mother’s matchmaking schemes
The Pandemic Dating Diaries is a TBI series that features moments in love, dating, and sex during Covid-19 directly from our readers. Have a story you’d like to submit? Email us or DM us on Twitter or Instagram.
By Anonymous
A text conversation from April 5, 2020:
Me: I’ve had it. I’ve barely woken up, I go downstairs and my mom immediately starts talking to me about rishtai (marriage) and how I should get my sister to meet this guy.
Friend 1: Dude, your mom is relentless.
Friend 2: We are in QUARANTINE.
Friend 1: LOL She’s like this is…
Pandemic Dating Diaries
A quarantine love story with my dog’s help
The Pandemic Dating Diaries is a series from The Bold Italic that features moments in love, dating, and sex during Covid-19 directly from our readers. Have a story you’d like to submit? Email us or DM us on Twitter or Instagram.
A year ago, I started quarantining with my ex, who had signed up to foster a sweet brown pit bull named Sapphire. My then-boyfriend and I had a sick-and-tired relationship that never seemed to end. We had broken up three times in six months. …
Pandemic Dating Diaries
I’ve committed to him, and it’s been worth it
The Pandemic Dating Diaries is a TBI series that features moments in love, dating, and sex during Covid-19 directly from our readers. Have a story you’d like to submit? Email us or DM us on Twitter or Instagram.
I don’t like being dumped. None of us do. So, when I look back at the bravest, most romantic commitment I ever made, I wonder if I knew at that moment that this was the human for me. …
The Weirdest Shit Out of Silicon Valley
The month of the vaccine flex
“The Weirdest Shit Out of Silicon Valley” is a series from The Bold Italic documenting the bizarre news, gadgets, and developments in the tech world.
Welcome to March! You made it! Hopefully your February was a Bridgerton-full fiesta, and not a stay-in-your-sweatpants-and-sob kinda month.
We may be halfway to vaccine “open season” if we’re lucky — so cheers to more waiting around. As always, I’m here to entertain and inform you with the latest musings coming out of the Valley.
Here’s what we saw in February 2021 — but first, our monthly game.
Two Truths and a Lie: Silicon Valley Edition
Which of the following long-distance love-related startups…
Pandemic Dating Diaries
Not gonna lie, paying for Tinder Gold upped my dating roster considerably
“Pandemic Dating Diaries” is a TBI series that features moments in love, dating, and sex during Covid-19 directly from our readers. Have a story you’d like to submit? Email us or DM us on Twitter or Instagram.
Months into the pandemic, I found myself on a Friday night lounging in my work pajamas, binging a Netflix docuseries while scrolling on Tinder. I stumbled upon Tinder’s paid subscriptions and immediately thought, “Paying for dating apps… Nobody does that! …Right?”
I’m a Type A person with a long history of failed romantic endeavors. I’m assertive in my career and life aspirations. I…
The Weirdest Shit Out of Silicon Valley
It’s officially a flex
“The Weirdest Shit Out of Silicon Valley” is a series from The Bold Italic documenting the bizarre news, gadgets, and developments in the tech world.
I get it—online dating is hard right now (and all the time). You can swipe right only so many times on “You can’t spell quarantine without U R A QT” without wanting to pack the whole thing in. Social-distanced IRL dates mean you can at least see the person you’re thinking about mashing bits with, but it’s hard to gauge chemistry through a mask, and Covid-19 cuffing is a real thing, yo.
Enter the vaxxed…
Pandemic Dating Diaries
By the time I meet my future husband, I could be looking at a geriatric pregnancy. Lovely.
“Pandemic Dating Diaries” is a TBI series that features moments in love, dating, and sex during Covid-19 directly from our readers. Have a story you’d like to submit? Email us or DM us on Twitter or Instagram.
Truly nothing from 2020 felt more relatable than when I was doing my nightly scroll on TikTok and came upon @jacygibbs declaring: “I just think it’s… it’s insane to think that a pandemic postponed my wedding. What are the odds? Like, I’m not dating anyone but this for sure pushed it back.”
Jacy’s #relatable, self-deprecating video really struck a chord with me. I…
Pandemic Dating Diaries
Moving is always a fresh start, but this was entirely unexpected
The Pandemic Dating Diaries is a series from The Bold Italic that features moments in love, dating, and sex during Covid-19 directly from our readers. Have a story you’d like to submit? Email us or DM us on Twitter or Instagram.
I added extra layers of tape to the boxes piled in the center of my apartment, taking care to stack the smaller ones on top. I was wearing a tank top and shorts at 8 a.m., but I was already beginning to sweat in the end-of-June heat. My mask stuck to my face.
Earlier in the year, I had…
Pandemic Dating Diaries
Another downside of the pandemic
The Pandemic Dating Diaries is a series from The Bold Italic that features moments in love, dating, and sex during Covid-19 directly from our readers. Have a story you’d like to submit? Email us or DM us on Twitter or Instagram.
“Do you want to come to bed?” I ask as I put my arms around my husband from behind the couch. Surely, he knows what this means. It’s 10 p.m. on a Tuesday and it’s been a week since we last went to bed together.
“In a bit,” he answers.
It’s now been a month. …
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