Your Handbook for Dating in 2025

Inside: Solutions to your biggest challenges.

If you’re single and dating in the modern era, there are probably a few words that describe your feelings towards the experience — many of which are probably inappropriate to say in front of children.

Either you’ve been dating for awhile, or maybe you’ve not dated for awhile and are recently out of a long-term relationship or marriage, in which case you’ve found yourself immersed in a reality that has no resemblance to the one that existed the last time you were single.

Either way, you’re likely running around in circles muttering to yourself — What the hell is going on?

That’s what this article is for, to help lay out the challenges faced by most searching for love, and also to provide new approaches to each one in order to help you navigate an ever-changing terrain.

In other words: Below you’ll find the problem, followed by the solution.

Let’s dive in:

1: Lots of pen pals.

First thing’s first — a lot of people tend to meet or begin interacting online. That’s how Rachel and I met, we’d been Facebook friends for over 10 years and never really spoke until the pandemic hit. Now that we’re married and raising her two kids…