I re-downloaded dating apps after a year because of COVID-19 induced loneliness.
Here’s how online dating during the pandemic is different, in a good way.
I know much worse is happening in the world, but this did feel especially cold.

But after about seven months of swiping, chatting, dating, and ghosting, I was exhausted.
Obviously that wont be happening, but the fact that I even thought it really drove home my loneliness.
A lot of people are stuck inside alone and are hungry for personal contact.

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Its natural to think of what youve been missing if you dont have a [partner] right now.
So back to online dating apps for meand, it seems, many others.
Check out what exactly happened when I tried online dating during the pandemic to find out.

After I make my updates, I begin swiping.
With one person in particular, I was happy to find things get pretty steamy.
Where the former average might have been What do you do for work?

the new average is Hows your quarantine?
or Have you tried to bake bread yet?
I think people who are online dating during the pandemic really are looking for more human connection.

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The culture seems a little less swipe-y than it did to me a year ago.
It would be nice to have someone to go out with by then.
Heres what having safer sex means in the time of COVID-19.

And if youre sad about pretty much everything right now, same.Here are eight ways to deal.
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