Hey friends Jamie Grace and welcome to Waited Out a podcast all about dating, relationships and other things worth waiting for.

I'm pumped for today's episode. I say that so often, but it's true. I just love making this podcast.

But today's episode we're going to be talking about online

dating. I get a lot of questions about this, people saying like they're super

against online dating, people saying that they are obsessed with online dating, like so many different things.

And so I'm just gonna dig into it.

I did something that I never do and I took notes before I recorded this so that I can make sure that I said things that were really important to me,

things that I really wanted to share.

And this is the main rules that I personally think should apply if you're considering signing up for an

online dating profile right I think that you should be an adult that's where we're gonna

start this isn't for high schoolers. I think that you should be like an

adult, like a job, like that's just how I feel about that. Next next point. I would say to know that a dating app is it's not it's not the sole place of

your hope and validation, right?

If you're downloading a dating app

because you think this is where I'm going to find love,

this is where I'm going to be complete,

this is what I'm going to find someone,

I'm going to get some tonight,

I think you're getting it for the wrong reasons. No, I get that that's what some of the some apps are just for

finding hope and validation. And so people would say like, you know, that's what the app is for.

And honestly, guys, if you actually look at the interviews and read the articles of a lot of these

apps when they when they started read the thought of what a lot of these founders had to say

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