Looking for a Valentine? You May Need Better Dating Skills

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🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Despite an explosion of dating apps and social media that seemingly make it easier to meet people, rates of marriage and couples living together have steadily decreased since 1990, according to the Pew Research Center. For singles looking for a relationship, dating is even harder than meeting potential partners. So, how do you go from the meet-cute to a lasting relationship? We’ll talk with coaches and experts about whether dating is becoming a lost art and how to improve your dating game. Guests: Myisha Battle, sex and dating coach, host of KCRW's "How's Your Sex Life" podcast; author of "This Is Supposed to Be Fun: Finding Joy In Hooking Up, Settling Down, and Everything In Between" and the upcoming "Sexual Pleasure For Dummies." Daniel Yi, co-host, "I Hate Dating Apps" podcast Lauren Josephine, dating coach; author, "Looking for Something Serious" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.0	From K-Q-E-D.
0:32.3	Welcome to Forum.
0:33.5	I'm Alexis Madrigo.
0:35.1	What is dating?
0:37.0	As I got ready for the show, I realized how much we push
0:39.7	into the concept. And really, dating in the way we mean it is only, what, 75 years old or so,
0:46.7	which is really nothing in the scheme of human courtship rituals. And if we're honest, this new form
0:52.7	of app-enabled dating is really less than a decade old.
0:56.8	So there's so much about it that seems fuzzy and weird, a confusion of people and purposes
1:01.7	and corporate imperatives. Will it get better? How do you thrive within this new paradigm?
1:07.9	We've got some folks here to help you out. Daniel Yee is co-host of the I
1:13.2	Hate Dating Apps Podcast. It says it right there on the tin. Thanks for joining us, Daniel.
1:18.0	Thank you for having me. We've also got Lauren Josephine, who's a dating coach and author of the book,
1:23.5	looking for something serious. Welcome, Lauren. Thank you so much. And we've got Maisha Battle,
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