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Hey everybody, it's Mary L.

If you've ever done online dating,

you know that it can be exhausting,

the endless swiping, the conversations that go

nowhere, the weird interactions where it feels like somebody's just on a different

planet than you, like you've exchanged two messages and suddenly they're sending you naked picks.

Not to mention the emotional roller coaster of really vibing with somebody on the app and then

getting to the date and it's just nothing there. It can make you want to stop dating entirely.

But there is another option. It may not seem like it, but you can meet people to date in person.

If the apps are not feeling good anymore,

then I would suggest folks like, all right,

let's try other ways that do feel good for you.

Jada Suwanacy is a sexuality and relationship educator.

Now dating offline is a mindset shift.

You don't instantly get the information

that you would from someone's online profile, like whether they're available or interested in your gender or what kind of romantic connections they're seeking.

In the offline space, it's often a little bit challenging to know if someone wants to be approached

or if someone is looking for that type of connection.

But that's not an insurmountable challenge.

It just makes dating offline more of a long game.

When we're dating offline, it's just how do we open up all these different avenues of people

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