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How would you say this nonsense will/has affected dating?

By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

With all the new rules about social distancing and everything else. How are people supposed to date during a pandemic?

Before all this a bar or nightclub was a good way to meet someone. A restaurant or a nice bar was a good venue for a date.

What can we do now?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Zoom dates

Online game date

Pen pals

Telephone

Go out for a walk and have a short distanced chat while exercising

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Also I’m talking about long term. I know people aren’t supposed to be meeting others but these rules will probably be with us for the next year at least so without things like bars and nightclubs to meet and date venue like restaurants and bars being off bounds.

How is this impacting the singles and how are they supposed to try and date and find someone during this or should single people just have to stay single for however long this pandemic is around, and get older with their chances of having children decreasing each year.

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By *ightkitty4uWoman over a year ago

Epsom

I gave up dating years ago!

When your out no one mingles like they used too, it’s all about who you are with and the photos! Also I do not go out as much as I did say 6 years ago

Online is full of people I do not find attractive

And striking up random conversations in supermarkets other shops is hard as I never know who the single ones are!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Humans have an amazing ability to adapt. People will adapt. Meet someone over the internet and have a date in a park with a takeaway coffee.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

That’s my fear (fear is probably too strong a word) but I feel like everything will be pushed towards online interacting. I don’t like online stuff. It meddles with the way things are supposed to be. It’s detached. You’re judged on a few pics and a bit of blurb on your profile.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"That’s my fear (fear is probably too strong a word) but I feel like everything will be pushed towards online interacting. I don’t like online stuff. It meddles with the way things are supposed to be. It’s detached. You’re judged on a few pics and a bit of blurb on your profile. "

But it will be the norm for the younger generations. My niece and nephew communicate over the internet all the time when not at school. They don't distinguish between offline and online. It's all the same to them.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I think dating is a bit too personal and too instinctive to remain changed by the current distancing; once people can get back into pubs, clubs, etc. it will go back to normal.

Other stuff like shopping, movie going, etc. may not as those are ‘acquired things’ and I suspect if many can do them without shifting their arses off the sofa, they’ll keep it that way.

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By *kblokenorthMan over a year ago

Any

Agreed!

Sometimes you just click both online and in person......others you can even get blocked on here but end up meeting elsewhere and having an amazing connection after all !

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By *lik and PaulCouple over a year ago

cahoots

It won't be online forever and I agree...online is a false environment. It's a little way off but things will settle down and we will be out mingling again. Xx

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Also I’m talking about long term. I know people aren’t supposed to be meeting others but these rules will probably be with us for the next year at least so without things like bars and nightclubs to meet and date venue like restaurants and bars being off bounds.

I am single and live alone so meeting for an outside coffee at weekend with a suitable prospective fwb with view of forming a bubble - Boris hasn’t forbidden it this time. If he turns out to be under 70 and has a cock then he will be successful

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

It won't be online forever and I agree...online is a false environment. It's a little way off but things will settle down and we will be out mingling again. Xx"

But even when the bars opened back up in July my friend and I went out to a few bars. Had to prebook a table, once there we were seated with table service so can’t even go up to the bar. Nobody can join your table from another table. Nobody was milling around, no human traffic or eye candy walking passed.

It’s massively changed the way things are. Before you could just wander from bar to bar. Now and probably for the foreseeable, when you go out you’re just seated and told to stay where you are and if there’s no one seated close to you you’re fucked cos you don’t see anybody else. I used to love going for a wander around a bar and putting my face about and waiting for guys to approach me. Can’t do that anymore.

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