Lisa Portolan - 10 Ways to Find Love and How to Keep It

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Recorded27 Jan 2026

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We’re all looking for love, but although it’s been years since I was lucky enough to find the love of my life, the world of online dating seems fraught with obstacles, uncertainties and contradictions. Or so I’m told!Although modern society and media have sold us the fairytale of that one big, romantic love – chemistry, sparks, passion – the majority of people don’t think a big love can be discovered on dating apps. And given our consumer culture’s fixation on the disposable and the new, many lonely hearts become stuck in a cycle of looking for the next, even better relationship. Ironically, while we’re on this quest for romantic novelty, we may also be craving long-term partnerships, feeling like failures if we don’t achieve them. How can we reconcile these conflicting desires? Dating app academic Dr Lisa Portolan talks to presenter of A Better World Blueprint Shevonne Hunt about what love looks like in the digital age.Like what you heard? Buy your copy here.

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