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Why Dating Apps Are No Way to Find True Love
By Jon Birger
On 02/02/21 at 7:00 AM EST
I didn t set out to write a book telling singles to ditch their dating apps.
The focus of Make Your Move: The New Science of Dating and Why Women Are in Charge isn t online dating. It s flipping the script on dating s traditional gender roles rewriting all those archaic rules that tell a woman she can t ask a man out on a date or can t ask her boyfriend to marry her.
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But something else emerged from my interviews with women who had found love by bucking the rules: They hated online dating.