Tuesday, January 13

LIFESTYLE

AI Dating — The Tech Takeover Of Romance
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DATING

AI Dating — The Tech Takeover Of Romance

AI dating is about data, not love: How to resist the tech takeover of romance. As in-person dating activities make a comeback and the allure of dating apps fade, platforms like Tinder, Bumble and Hinge are becoming passé for millennials and Gen Z. But while the era of dating apps is on the decline, people aren’t ditching the search for love altogether. There’s enough heart-shaped chocolates, red lingerie and silicone toys to keep us going for decades. The real question is: who or what is filling the void left by the dating app industry? The answer is artificial intelligence. Tech companies have woven AI into everything from facial recognition software to voice-activated assistants and sexbots. Now, it’s being inserted into online dating. As an anthropologist who writes about sexuality, da...
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The Benefits Of Being Alone
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BREAK UP

The Benefits Of Being Alone

Being alone has its benefits − a psychologist flips the script on the ‘loneliness epidemic’. Over the past few years, experts have been sounding the alarm over how much time Americans spend alone. Statistics show that we’re choosing to be solitary for more of our waking hours than ever before, tucked away at home rather than mingling in public. Increasing numbers of us are dining alone and traveling solo, and rates of living alone have nearly doubled in the past 50 years. These trends coincided with the surgeon general’s 2023 declaration of a loneliness epidemic, leading to recent claims that the U.S. is living in an “anti-social century.” Loneliness and isolation are indeed social problems that warrant serious attention, especially since chronic states of loneliness are linked with poor ...
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A Nation Of Homebodies?
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FAMILY

A Nation Of Homebodies?

America is becoming a nation of homebodies. In his February 2025 cover story for The Atlantic, journalist Derek Thompson dubbed our current era “the anti-social century.” He isn’t wrong. According to our recent research, the U.S. is becoming a nation of homebodies. Using data from the American Time Use Survey, we studied how people in the U.S. spent their time before, during and after the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic did spur more Americans to stay home. But this trend didn’t start or end with the pandemic. We found that Americans were already spending more and more time at home and less and less time engaged in activities away from home stretching all the way back to at least 2003. And if you thought the end of lockdowns and the spread of vaccines led to a revival of partying an...
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The Dark Side Of Dating Apps
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RELATIONSHIPS

The Dark Side Of Dating Apps

Dating app cover-up: How Tinder, Hinge and their corporate owner keep rape under wraps The Dating Apps Reporting Project is an 18-month investigation. It was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network and The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, and copublished with The Guardian and The 19th.  When a young woman in Denver met up with a smiling cardiologist she matched with on the dating app Hinge, she had no way of knowing that the company behind the app had already received reports from two other women who accused him of rape. She met the 34-year-old doctor with green eyes and thinning hair at Highland Tap & Burger, a sports bar in a trendy neighborhood. It went well enough that she accepted an invitation to go back to his apartment. As she emerged ...
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5 Ways Old School Dating Rules Lead To Online Dating Success
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DATING

5 Ways Old School Dating Rules Lead To Online Dating Success

Remember the old days when you and a posse of your best girl friends would put on your heels and go to a bar or disco to meet men? You would position yourself center of the room, scan the prospects and choose your targets. In today's dating world our brains have become so tech focused that we wonder if we have lost the art of dating and meeting men. We knew some things back in the disco days and these important old school dating rules can guide us to online dating success. Today's apps are the bars and discos of our past Our perfect perch on the bar stool was the online profile picture of today. Scanning the room then is just like looking through profiles now. Today's swipe left or right or is no different from turning our bar stool or our shoulder to invite or cut off conversation or l...
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What’s Your Online Dating Beauty Rank? Take The Quiz!
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DATING

What’s Your Online Dating Beauty Rank? Take The Quiz!

Recently, I overheard my girlfriend Lisa leaving a babbling message on a guy's answering machine after a first date. Even though things went well, Lisa was a bundle of self-doubt and nerves as she talked herself into thinking he might not call again. I was dumbfounded at the confusing, negative voicemail. The long and short of it is that Lisa ended up spoiling things with this new man before they even got started. Are You Sabotaging Your Love Life? When I asked my girlfriend what that message was all about, Lisa shrugged her shoulders and said it wasn't going to last anyway. If I had been coaching Lisa, a beautiful, smart, funny, independent woman who is a great catch, I would have asked how she felt about herself before posting a profile on the dating sites. To me, she had some clear b...
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Single & Alone – How’s That Working Out For You?
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DATING

Single & Alone – How’s That Working Out For You?

Would you agree that there are few places lonelier than being in a loveless relationship? Spending time with someone who's clearly bored, disinterested, perhaps even angry at your mere presence slowly destroys your confidence, self-esteem and faith in yourself. You may even question your ability to sustain future relationships. Then there are those who've had long, successful relationships which perhaps ended naturally through health issues or unexpectedly out of the blue, so leaving them lost, desolate and grief-stricken. They're faced with doubts as to how they'll heal, recover and start anew. Being single and alone never really featured as an option for them. Some people are on a constant mission to find partners for their single friends, seeming to feel that they've something missing f...
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Teenagers And AI Companions — What You Need To Know
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PARENTING, VIDEO REELS

Teenagers And AI Companions — What You Need To Know

Teenagers Turning To AI Companions Are Redefining Love As Easy, Unconditional And Always There. Teenagers are falling in love with chatbots. Young people are reporting epidemic levels of loneliness, and some are turning to technology to fill the void. Recent tragedies provide a glimpse into the extent of this trend and the dangers it poses. A 14-year-old boy’s suicide following a romantic relationship with an AI companion raised national alarms about the dangers these relationships may pose to young people’s mental and emotional development. In 2021, a 19-year-old who had been in an emotional relationship with an AI companion broke into Windsor Castle with a crossbow, saying that he was going to kill the queen. The chatbot gave encouraging responses when he told it of his intention to ...
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Stay Connected In A Long Distance Relationship
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RELATIONSHIPS

Stay Connected In A Long Distance Relationship

Long distance relationships can be filled with challenges that couples around the block from each other never face. On the other hand, the creative ways that you find to stay connected while you are living apart will increase your creativity when you are living together. It's incredibly easy to take another person for granted. You take for granted that they will always be there or will always love you... just because they always have. But when you live apart for a long period of time, you can draw on those memories to bring you closer together when you finally do live together. This is a bonus that other couples only experience if they purposefully take the time to be creative about connecting. So, while it is a challenge to stay connected, learning these skills now makes your relationshi...
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Do You Need A Relationship Reboot
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RELATIONSHIPS

Do You Need A Relationship Reboot

I call BS! And I'm not ashamed to admit that I have had to call BS on myself from time to time. Far too many men are not acting like men. This isn't about judgement. This is about intimacy in its highest form. Let us suspend talking about what we are not getting from our significant other. We have no control over that. But what we do have control of is how we treat out partners. And how we treat them speaks to how we really feel about ourselves. If you need all the conditions to be right to treat your lady like a lady, you're not acting a man. If you need for all of your needs to be met before you treat your wife or girlfriend like a lady, that is not an act of intimacy. That is an act of doing business. Conditions of equality in a relationship are not based on what have you done for me l...
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