Manuela López-Restrepo

A hundred percent.

I feel like the type of person that I want to meet who has kind of the same approach and values is not going to be somebody that I meet on an app.

And if you've been on them over the course of a few years, it kind of feels like you're in like a haunted old saloon and you see the same ghosts over and over again.

Like, oh, wow, you're still there in the same stool with the same drink.

Hi, Brittany.

Well, I'm glad it's someone's favorite topic because every time I think about it, I want to bonk myself on the head with a little clown hammer.

Yeah.

I can understand that.

I know you've been off the apps for a while though now.

I've mostly been clean from the apps for about a year now.

How has that been?

I mean, it's hard.

I think when you're going against the grain of something that has become part of modern life so quickly and so ubiquitously.

You kind of maybe feel like you're the one who's doing things wrong.

All of my friends are still on apps and going on dates.

And meanwhile, I'm meeting maybe a few people per year.

But also speaking personally, I also don't know any of said friends who are on the apps and have good things to say about it.

So, you know, I would just kind of say that I'm not sure I know anybody who's happy with the state of dating in general.

Brittany, here's the thing.

I have basically been on dating apps my entire dating life.