Many, it seems, are “willing to lie about how we met,” at least according to their online dating profiles. All kinds of beliefs swirl around online dating: it’s not safe, it’s just for vapid hookups, it’s phoney, it’s maybe even the dawn of the dating apocalypse, if you believe Vanity Fair. “We felt that our story is not remotely romantic,” Sullivan, who was the first among her friends to experiment with online dating, tells the Star. With online dating, “you’re making an active decision to find someone rather than just hoping it will happen. Gottman led a series of observational and longitudinal studies of romantic couples starting in the 1970s aimed at finding the patterns of successful relationships.

Source: thestar November 13, 2017 23:03 UTC