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☆ How Does Technology Play a Role in Your Love Life? We Want to Hear From You.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( Gina Cherelus | More About Gina Cherelus | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Technology has played a major role in our romantic lives since the invention of the telephone. But in the decades since, some watershed moments have shifted the terrain of dating and relationships. I document our ever-shifting dating lives in my weekly column, Third Wheel. As technology grows more powerful, I’m wondering: How is it affecting the way we form connections? Does a virtual dinner date with you and another person’s digital avatar sound appealing?

Organizations: Technology

☆ The ‘Total Stranger’ Who Wants You to Relive Your Dating Disasters on Camera
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Gina Cherelus | More About Gina Cherelus | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

One woman confessed to slashing tires and taking bank information. Mr. Carter, 25, who goes by J.C., said that he doesn’t come at the interviews with the sole aim of going viral. “I’m a total stranger, so I’m not going to judge them,” he added. The internet has never been more saturated with videos of people brandishing microphones and cameras in strangers’ faces, recording guerrilla interviews on the street. In cities across the world, creators are asking to tour strangers’ apartments, see their bank accounts, or reveal information about their dating lives and relationship issues.

Persons: “, Chris Carter’s, ”, Carter, J.C, I’m, ’ Organizations: YouTube Locations: Washington, Manhattan

At a speed-dating event in August, $25 bought attendees 20 dates with strangers, each roughly five minutes long. When the first blind dates began, it wasn’t long before some people — mostly men — tried to go out of order so they could talk to the person they were most attracted to. “There’s a seat right here,” one of the event’s organizers said, steering a wayward attendee back into the designated flow. Speed dating is no easy feat, requiring the conversational stamina of a filibuster champion, the brevity of an auctioneer and a positive mood to fight the boredom of repetition. Drinks were encouraged.

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☆ Movers See All, and They Have Thoughts on Your Relationship
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Gina Cherelus | More About Gina Cherelus | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

When moving couples who aren’t breaking up, there are always ways to get a sense of their usual dynamic, said Sven Wechsler, owner of Sven Moving. It can also be telling when only one person is present, Mr. Wechsler said. The third time it happened, Mr. DeFabrizio actually showed up, but was turned away and offered some money for his time. “And then I realized what was happening,” Mr. DeFabrizio said. And I’m like, Daniel, I can’t be a part of this, this toxic relationship.”

Persons: Sven Wechsler, Sven, ”, Mr, Wechsler, “, ” Lou DeFabrizio, Lou Moves, DeFabrizio, Daniel, ” Mr, “ Daniel, I’m

☆ Don’t Worry, He’s All Right, According to at Least One Woman
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Gina Cherelus | More About Gina Cherelus | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On the vouch dating groups, women post a few pictures of their guy friends, adding details about who the guy is and who he’s looking for, Ms. Pinckney, said. The friend then shares the potential matches with her guy friend and makes the connection if it’s a fit. Approaching the issue of verification from the opposite side of the coin, popular Facebook groups known as Are We Dating the Same Guy? But Are We Dating The Same Guy groups — there are more than 150 in different cities around the world — have become increasingly criticized for divisiveness, toxicity, defamation and privacy issues. Some, like Hinge and Raya, use various strategies to make potential matches feel less like strangers.

Persons: Pinckney, they’re, ”

☆ A Singles Party, Where Chaos Is the Point
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Gina Cherelus | More About Gina Cherelus | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

“Are any of you guys drinking Jack and Coke right now,” Jesus Valdes shouted at two women who were sipping cocktails during a crowded singles mixer at American Whiskey, a bar in Midtown Manhattan. They were not, and Mr. Valdes let out a sigh of frustration. He was playing Chaotic Bingo, a game in which guests were given a sheet that listed 25 characteristics they had to find in someone else, including someone who’s had sex this month and someone you’d want to kiss later. First one to circle five across received one free year of Tinder platinum. Mr. Valdes, 34, a professor from Staten Island, said that he had met a few people already that he was interested in, including one “stand out,” but that it was early and he still wanted to mingle.

Persons: Coke, ” Jesus Valdes, Valdes, who’s, . Valdes Locations: Midtown Manhattan, Staten Island

☆ Therapy Where the Clothes Come Off (Sometimes)
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Gina Cherelus | More About Gina Cherelus | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Eileen Chao works with people who, for any number of reasons, are less than comfortable with sex. She also works with people whose religious upbringing has complicated their relationship with sex or taught them “that their body is not to be trusted.”Ms. Chao is a surrogate partner in San Francisco. Unlike in more traditional forms of therapy, in which practitioners are usually careful to keep clients at arm’s length, a surrogate partner “enters into a temporary relationship” with a client on an intimate level, she said. “It’s really for clients to learn relationship skills and also develop a relationship with their own sexual selves,” she said. Ms. Chao, 42, described her office as a “relationship laboratory” in which she initiates different experiments to help clients identify whatever their barriers to emotional and physical intimacy might be.

Persons: Eileen Chao, Ms, Chao, “, “ It’s, ” Locations: San Francisco

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