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Breakup Boost: Advice to Get Over Heartbreak

#10: Cut to the Chase When it Comes to Online Dating (Why You Shouldn't Drag Out the Small Talk)

Breakup Boost: Advice to Get Over Heartbreak

Trina Leckie

Relationships, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2016

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

One of the biggest issues with online dating is often people won't just cut to the chase and ask the other person to go out. It actually seems as though some people have no intention of meeting PERIOD.  They just want to swipe their lives away out of boredom. Why are you on a dating site if you aren't going to go on a date? Come on now... 

 

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0:00.0

Broken-hearted, feeling like the world is over, convinced you'll never meet anyone else.

0:07.0

Trina's breakup boost will help heal your heart and get you back in the dating saddle.

0:14.4

She'll give you straightforward opinions and advice for your love life.

0:17.8

Okay, the topic of today's episode is cut to the chase when it comes to online dating.

0:27.1

So online dating used to be the forbidden or embarrassing way to meet someone.

0:32.3

Some people actually still make a point of writing,

0:35.0

we can lie about how we met in their profiles.

0:39.0

Like, okay, you know what, the joke is over, it's old old it's not funny anymore just leave that

0:44.2

alone because today the majority of people have tried it at some point and it is

0:49.0

an acceptable way to meet someone because you may have never met these people otherwise so it can really

0:54.8

open a lot of doors. That said one of the biggest issues with online dating though is

1:00.3

often people won't just cut to the chase and ask the other person to go out.

1:04.8

And in my opinion, because this is my podcast, I do think the man should be doing the

1:10.2

asking. But that said, of course there's going to be the initial question such as what

1:15.8

area do you live in what do you do for work hobbies blah blah blah but after you've

1:21.0

conquered those questions you have a general idea as to what the person is about,

1:25.6

and you know you find them attractive, unless their photos are a total misrepresentation.

1:31.6

But that is the time when it's ready to plan to meet.

1:36.4

That's the point of this after all, no?

1:39.4

Don't you have better things to do aside from wasting time being a pen pal with someone, texting for days on end

1:45.6

only to find out you have zero chemistry in person is pointless. Or even more pointless,

1:51.4

texting someone on end with no intention of ever meeting them.

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