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Dating Apps Don’t Make For A Boring Love Story
By Ali Hinman
My parents met when they were kids. They grew up down the street from each other, and my dad asked my mom out when he was 20 and she was 18 because they both didn’t have a valentine. I love this story. I love hearing about how two people are brought together in this world of impossibilities. I work with elderly adults, and I ask all my patients how they met their spouses, and each story is special and sweet. Even 65 years later, their faces light up talking about how their husband got their attention by pulling on their hair in the movie theater or how they knew their wife was for them within the first few seconds of their blind date.
Yet, when someone asks me how I met my girlfriend, I say “oh, you know, on the apps” and change the subject. Sometimes I mention how I woke up to 2 notifications, one from Tinder and one from Bumble, and they were both her, but not always. The person who asks says “oh nice” and then scrambles to talk about something else. I’m not embarrassed about how I met her. I love her. Obsessed with her even. I talk about her constantly. I would talk about her all day if I could. But why do I shy away from this simple fact that we met on a dating app?
The stigma of dating apps have largely been alleviated. When they first came out, it was a little risky to meet someone on a dating…
