Guardian online dating column

Blind date: ‘I’ve given up trying to understand the male psyche’

What were you hoping for? No expectations, I just thought it would be a fun thing to do. Anything for a good story! First impressions? Things got off to a rocky start. Our date was at 6. Turns out we were given different times sabotage from the Guardian! He had the email evidence , but he was super apologetic. What did you talk about?

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Mind-boggling, heart-rending and darkly comic, this is the full story for the first time, from the writer of the Guardian column Midlife Exwife…. But then she realised that she needed to take her future in her own hands. She needed to meet someone wonderful, and find a heartfix for heartbreak. So, she joined online dating sites and embarked on a mission. Her journey was never dull, featuring marriage proposals, invitations to Tangier, badly timed food poisoning and much younger men — but was it ultimately successful?

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What were you hoping for? First impressions?

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Gen Z yearns for the pre-digital dating era – but don’t ask them out in person

I n season 2 of Sex and the City, Miranda — one of the main characters having sex in the city — gets asked out in an elevator. The man who asks her out is a recently divorced dad with an annoying son. Things end poorly.

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