Good question Ginger. I’m not really sure. I think OLD has really changed the natural process of things. It seems a lot of the effort is put into making a connection online and then the brief coffee.date with a quick exit plan seems to be the standard. I haven’t really gotten too far past that stage with the exception of a couple people and I never really went on a traditional date with any of them. It was a more of a mutually agreed-upon activity. The traditional dinner and a movie doesn’t seem to be something that too many people do anymore. It has been replaced by “Netflix and chill”, I think. I think formalities in general are being lost over time. For instance, when I was a kid, my friends’ parents were Mr. & Mrs. or Ms. I would never have thought of calling them by their first names. Nowadays, my kids’ friends call me by my first name and it would almost seem weird for them to call me anything else. So...things are changing in a lot of different ways. IDK...that’s just my take on it. I certainly join you in your frustrations with dating. My latest fiasco makes me wonder if it is worth any kind of effort at all.
