Nothing to see here! Fast-forward a good decade and I am willing to claim the desperately dating title.
I met my only long-term partner on Tinder in , though obviously we lied about how we met initially because it still felt embarrassing. But dating apps have changed a lot since that time⦠and not always for the better.
At the end of , I was ready to Give Up. I deleted all the apps, bidding farewell to my bestie Bumble, my first love Tinder, and my mortal enemy Hinge. I was breaking the cycle of addiction, cold turkey, very well aware the apps had been designed to make us keep using them, not to actually help us find our forever person. I had seen everything I needed to ever see. In February, a friend told me about being on Feeld. I had heard of it before, and knew it as the horny app: The app people use when they want to fuck.
A couple of weeks later another friend mentioned being on Feeld with their partner β they were dipping their toes in the overflowing pond of open relationships and figuring it all out together.
With one friend having a successful hookup encounter, and another going on actual, real, organised dates, my curiosity was piqued.
