Dating Tips

You sent the message. Maybe it was something interesting you noticed about them or maybe it was just a plain “hey.” Either way, no reply. Your Tinder match read it, or at least opened the app since you sent it, and…

Short answer: no. No alert, no push notification, no silent flag on profiles, conversations, photos, or anything else inside the app. Nobody on the other end sees a thing, and there’s no setting that changes this. Tinder’s own privacy documentation doesn’t…

By Murphy’s Law, toast always falls buttered-side down, and his phone lived screen-first. The counter, the nightstand, the armrest. Always face down. I noticed, and then I spent weeks pretending I hadn’t. I started cataloguing his tics like a forensic scientist.…

It dies the second they say “So, what do you do?”The moment you hit that question, the clock starts ticking. It’s not the question itself. Could be “How was your day?” Could be “What do you do for fun?” Could be…

It was a Tuesday night, 9:47 p.m., and I was already two bites into a grocery store rotisserie chicken, straight from the container, no plate. I sent him “How was your day?” because I thought I was being polite. I liked…