Perspectives on dating, identity, and finding your people.
In focusOne of the fastest ways to start an argument in a room full of single people is by asking whether the talking stage should come with an exclusivity clause. Some people think it’s basic decency, and others think the whole idea of exclusivity without a label is a level-5 disaster dressed up as romance. We […]
Somewhere along the way, we decided love had to be a grand production to be real. That it needed a hidden camera, a caption-worthy moment, or something good enough to post, otherwise, it didn’t quite count. We built an entire industry around convincing people that if their partner isn’t planning something elaborate, they’re not trying […]
If you ever find yourself having to decode what someone is saying to you or their intentions toward you, chances are it probably wasn’t good to begin with, and that’s the real premise of this list. Dating in 2026 comes with its own language, and a lot of these phrases are intentionally set up to […]
Ah! The situationship. The soul-sucking grey area of modern dating that a good number of us have come to know and hate. While widely known as the place where all hope of romance comes to die, and arguably an unending source of trauma for all its unwilling victims, there still seems to be some confusion […]
First dates have a way of following the same script. Everyone shows up wanting the same thing: to figure out if this person is actually worth their time, but nobody wants to be the one who makes it feel like a job interview. So instead, people stick to the safe, standard first-date questions: their job, […]
A tale of two friends, telling the same story from two different vantage points. One who was in it, one who watched it unfold from a semi-detached point of view. At the centre: a guy, a girl, a scheme, and a friendship that had to absorb the fallout, told by the two women who lived it.
There are very few things in modern dating that people have stronger opinions about than the talking stage, and after asking around, we can confirm that the opinions are bountiful, the stories behind them are messy, and at least one person thinks the talking stage is completely unnecessary.
