Topic “Dating”

By Amanda Hess (Slate)

LOS ANGELES — In The New York Times recently, reporter Alex Williams mourns “The End of Courtship.” Texting is to blame for dating’s demise.

“Instead of dinner-and-a-movie, which seems as obsolete as a rotary phone,” young people today “rendezvous over phone texts, Facebook posts,...

By Diana Spechler (Slate)

NEW YORK — “People feel weird when they meet me,” 27-year-old Blake Eastman tells me. He’s perched on a coffee table eating gummy bears.

Sitting across from him on the couch in an expansive, hardwood-floored rental space in Chelsea getting ready to watch him teach “The Dating Workshop,” I admit that I feel, if not “weird,” a bit self-...

By Gretchen McKay (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Tall, smart and athletic, Paul Kluitenberg isn’t the kind of boy girls typically say no to when he asks them to a school dance. So you wouldn’t have expected the senior to stress over asking fellow cross-country runner Meagan Guest to his school’s homecoming dance.

Then again, when you were in high school, you didn’t have to worry about...

By Katie M. Ellis

If you want to figure out if the one you’re dating is the right one, you can ask your friends, do a Facebook poll, take a magazine quiz — or you can come to a free dating workshop and get the skills you need to figure it out for yourself.

Utah State University’s Extension Service will hold a Smart Dating Singles Extravaganza from 6 p.m....

By Heidi Stevens (Chicago Tribune (MCT))

Who among us hasn’t spent a date night fighting over the merits of a renewed cap and trade act?

You haven’t? Yeah, neither have we. But that doesn’t mean politics haven’t been seeping into our relationships in ways big and small, especially in an election-year climate as divisive and colorful as this one.

The “Single in America...