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Date Their Tuesday, Not Their Highlight Reel
Chris Williamson and Mark Manson make the case for evaluating a partner’s ordinary life—their habits, stress response, values, and everyday kindness—before you commit.
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Practical dating advice for mid-life singles
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The Date Is Not the Prize
A post in a mid-singles group asked people to share their best photo and find someone to take on a date within two weeks. That was it. No long discourse about modern dating. No grievance. No twelve-part framework for becoming irresistible by Thursday. More than five hundred comments later, the
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What If Dating Is Not Broken? What If It Is Doing Exactly What We Built It to Do?
What if the problem is not that there are no good men or women left? What if the problem is that modern dating has quietly trained us to reject real people before we ever get the chance to know them? And what if the thing we blame most, dating apps,
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The Question Quietly Keeping Mid-Life Singles From Love Again
Editor’s note: This regular editorial article takes inspiration from Kait Willett’s YouTube video, “Divorce: Why the System is Failing Men[1].” It examines the wider cultural messages that can make mid-life singles wary of forming a new committed relationship. It does not offer legal, mental-health, or domestic-violence advice.
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The Etiquette of the Block
You don't owe an explanation to someone who is making you feel unsafe. Scott and Laurie break down the difference between ghosting and guarding your perimeter.
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Men Are More Romantic Than Women. Science Says So.
*Based on the Modern Wisdom podcast episode "The Truth About Sex Differences That Gets Scientists In Trouble" with Dr. Steve Stewart-Williams, evolutionary psychologist and author of A Billion Years of Sex Differences. Published July 2026. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roXX9iuPQIA*
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The Red Flag Question That Revealed More About the Men Than the Women
A man in the LDS Dating Midsingles Facebook group posted a question last month that generated 440 comments, 43 reactions, and no small amount of chaos. The question, accompanied by a graphic, was simple enough: "What is an instant red flag in a woman, no matter how pretty she
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The Most Important First-Date Question Is Not "Are You Married?"
Someone in the LDS Dating Midsingles group posted a simple prompt recently: "What is the most important question to ask on a first date?" It came with a cheerful graphic of a couple at a table. The post collected 244 comments. The thread did not go the direction
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When "Honesty" Becomes the Cruelest Thing in the Room
A post appeared in LDS Dating - Midsingles last week that generated over 330 comments and nearly a thousand reactions. The original poster wanted to talk about health and attraction. He opened by acknowledging that "we cannot have an honest conversation about attraction on here without fighting," then
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April 19, 2026: Your Glamour Shot Is Lying For You. And Everyone Knows It.
She hated dating apps. Got on anyway. Posted her worst photo. Got the most responses of her life. Turns out your glamour shot isn't attracting the right people — it's just scaring away the real ones."
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April 18, 2026: Is It a Spark Problem, or a You Problem?
An anonymous man posted to the LDS Dating - Midsingles Facebook group this week and the thread exploded into 135 comments. He had been dating a woman for over a year. She is kind, faithful, deeply in love with him, and by his own description, pretty. They are engaged. The
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WWCC Part 2: You Know Why You Can't Commit. Now What?
Why We Can't Choose — The Commitment Series A Practical Guide for the FA, DA, and the People Who Love Them This is Part 2 of a 2-part series. Part 1 covers the three attachment styles underneath FOMO, why the apps make everything worse, and what the research says