This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast.

My guest today on the podcast is Demona Hoffman.

She is a celebrity matchmaker, relationship expert, the official dating coach for OkCupid, and the host of the Dates and Mates

podcast. Her dating advice has been featured on the Drew Barrymore show

NPR, A&E, the Washington Post, the LA Times. And now she's here talking to you. Hello,

DeMona. Hello, hello. Thanks for having me back.

Yeah, I am so excited to continue our conversation.

My listeners probably know this, but DeMona and I, I had, I should say, the great privilege of speaking with DeMona about a year ago about dating and relationships and things have changed over the last year. Demona is back with

fresh information about dating trends for right this very second. And I'm so excited to talk with

you about this and share your insights with our listeners. So I know there's much to discuss. Where should we start?

You know, so much has changed, but so much has stayed the same. Remember when we thought,

I feel like last year, we were really enthusiastic about the pandemic ending.

Oh, right.

Of dating and relationships and our lives and we're going to get back to travel and all those things.

And we've seen some of those things, but they look a little bit different than we expected.

So I'm excited to be here with you today and unpack what has actually happened in 2021.

And then what we can expect in 2022,

I've been dating coaching for over 15 years.

And it's interesting seeing how my predictions even from back then have come to

pass and how we've evolved so much in dating.

I started writing dating profiles that long ago.

Yes, that was, online dating was around back then. And it's crazy to me now how much people have,

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