3 Ways To Overcome Dating Burnout | Matt Monday
Love Life With Matthew Hussey
Matthew Hussey
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🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Modern dating leads to burnout for a lot of people, especially those who use the apps. In my brand new video, I break down why so many people feel burnt out, disillusioned, and emotionally drained by today’s dating culture. From endless swiping to getting ghosted to dating defensively out of fear of rejection, it's tough out there. And unfortunately, many people are no longer dating to find connection, but simply trying to avoid getting hurt.
I explore why burnout has become so common, how heartbreak quietly follows people back into the dating pool, and the subtle ways modern dating trains us to perform instead of connect authentically. But this isn’t just a critique of modern dating and the apps. The episode shifts toward something deeper: I talk about how to maintain your confidence, reconnect with yourself, and stop letting disappointment harden you.
If you’ve ever wondered why dating feels heavier than it used to, or why so many people are quietly giving up on love, this episode will hit home in a big way.
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| 0:00.0 | It is not just in your head. Modern dating has become increasingly difficult. |
| 0:09.0 | There is data that shows that almost 50% of women age 25 to 44 will be single by 2030. |
| 0:16.0 | Says the Morgan Stanley data, which didn't say anything about how many men will be single by 2030, but let's ignore that. |
| 0:22.8 | Slightly sexist statistic. Other data shows that fewer young adults are having sex now and that many have |
| 0:28.2 | just given up on dating entirely. Some men are turning their frustrations into looks maxing, a particularly |
| 0:33.6 | nihilistic trend, and many women are opting out from dating altogether. |
| 0:38.3 | The frustrations of modern dating are unlike any other generation prior because even |
| 0:43.3 | though ghosting, cheating, lying, manipulation, heartbreak and lots of other terrible things |
| 0:49.3 | have always existed, we are the first generation to experience them at the scale we do. Thank you dating apps. |
| 0:56.0 | The result is twofold. Dating feels broken and we feel burned out. But I want to present you with a surprising theory today |
| 1:04.0 | that dating being broken isn't the real threat to your love life. Your burnout is. For those of you that don't know me, |
| 1:12.9 | I'm Matthew Hussie. I have been a coach for almost 20 years, have written two New York Times |
| 1:17.7 | bestsellers in the category of love and relationships. Subscribe, like this video and stick |
| 1:23.5 | around until the end because I have a really unique opportunity for you to get a solution |
| 1:27.8 | to all of this. Today, there is an unprecedented amount of dating advice out there in the form of |
| 1:33.8 | TikToks, YouTube videos, podcasts and books, all with their own take on where you might be going wrong. |
| 1:40.2 | And yet, for many of us, the advice only adds confusion and resentment that exacerbates our |
| 1:45.4 | burnout. Burnout can come in a number of ways, from trying every possible solution under the sun |
| 1:51.7 | to your love life and still cycling through wrong person after wrong person to getting fixated |
| 1:57.5 | on one person who has the special ability to burn us out all on their own. Or in the case of |
| 2:04.6 | one of my weekly viewers, Kimberly, it could be both. She said, I have tried today and to no avail, |
| 2:11.2 | nothing. Also, the man I met one and a half years ago has tortured me more with his ghosting, |
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