We Matched, Now What?

I have heard from some of you that though you’re making new connections, whether through humhum or on dating apps, it has been feeling challenging to sustain them. I feel you. To inspire and support you, I went ahead and wrote an article on how we can cultivate and sustain meaningful connections while distancing.

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How is Your Dating Life, Really?

Since starting humhum, I have been asked countless times, “is it working?” “Has it been successful?” In short, yes! But how we define success at humhum is not about “match results,” the typical numbers game that we fall into playing when examining the question, “how is your dating life?” We measure success by assessing how much we are learning and growing as we practice connection. Dating, one form of connection, is a process — and like any process, if we try to bypass it and leap to the end, we suffer. Can we enjoy the process?

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alexandra ballensweig