[paul7986]

Anyone else find dating to be different in the pandemic ... like it's harder to connect with people then before?

Dating was never real easy for me, but wow since Dec 2020 to now ive went on 20 to 30 dates to new friend meetups (bumble bff) and really nothing materialized. I've even started talking about it with recent dates (since Sept) and meetups cause they bring it up themselves.

I thought it was my age which is a factor for sure but those expressing the same sentiment are 15 to 20 years younger then myself. I'm in my mid 40s. Even though we express the same struggle no connection is made (IDK).

[floydian10]

I do. I mean, you do need to be in a good place to be able to connect, mentally and emotionally speaking. I can barely keep existing friendships these days.

[paul7986]

I've went offline in the past five months to connect with people .. church/play in their band and meetup.com. Church has been the most fruitful in terms of making a new friend and their friends.

Online dating is a joke with a good amount of friends (casual ones ive known through work & school) all saying it's hard to connect with people on a deeper level then just a date and a hookup. There's always something better to swipe right on and the one your interested in is interested in another whose not that interested in them but another and so on. My view of it ...one view at least.