Are You Being Sledged, ZipCoded, Or Monkey-Barred? The Ways You're Finding Love in 2026
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3.5 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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We have a blast going over the top new dating trends of 2026 as so many people continue to look for their soulmates. While the names of these trends may be clever and new, think “Zip Coding” and “Chalance”, the concepts have been around forever! We ask, are you looking for a “golden retriever boyfriend” or how about a “black cat” girlfriend? Bottom line, relationships are hard, and while labels might make us feel seen, we all want the same thing… to find our person.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:14.9 | Hey there, everybody. |
| 0:16.5 | It is Sunday, March 29th. |
| 0:18.9 | It is spring. |
| 0:20.0 | And for all of you single folks out there who are looking |
| 0:22.4 | for love, we've got the top new dating trends of 2026. And I don't know why it's fun for us |
| 0:29.7 | coupled up folks to even maybe just look at all the folks looking for love and seeing what's |
| 0:35.9 | hot, what's not, what people are looking for these days. I get a big kick out of looking at these dating trends and the words that folks come up with to describe them. Maybe it's just me. But with that, everyone, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. I don't know, babe. Do you get into it too? Do you get as tickled by some of these |
| 0:54.6 | trends and how they name them as I do? I get concerned that the person I'm engaged to marry |
| 1:00.4 | is so interested in dating trends. That's where I am on this whole thing. I don't find it. Maybe I would |
| 1:06.9 | find it cute or funny if it wasn't my fiance who keeps bringing these things to me. But sure, let's go have a good time talking about what it would be like to date these days. |
| 1:15.7 | Hmm, sounds fun. |
| 1:18.1 | I think I look at it through this lens. |
| 1:20.3 | Oh, God. |
| 1:20.8 | We went through a lot to be together. |
| 1:23.5 | We went through lots of other relationships and made a ton of mistakes along the way. |
| 1:28.2 | Yes. |
| 1:28.7 | And I think it's interesting from a sociological standpoint to take a look and see how people try to find their one and what works, what doesn't, and how things change and evolve. |
| 1:40.3 | You know, and our kids, my daughters are obviously in the middle of that era and their lives, and your young one is about to enter it. Okay, that's just, okay, now you, you're going too far now. She's 13. Yeah, that's when it starts. And I know you started to hear this boy, this boy, five down, five down. Yeah, you know it's true. It's not, isn't that where we are. You need to know this. |
| 2:01.9 | I need to know what the dating trends are for my 13 year old. No, this is, this is fun. This is fun because Cosmo actually explained why. Why there were so many new terms. And I thought this was cool. They said it creates a shared language that we can all use to talk about the confusing |
| 2:21.3 | and sometimes even frustrating parts of looking for love. |
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