Nine months after deleting my dating apps, I had a lapse in judgement a couple of days ago and signed up to them again. With every ping on my phone since, I’ve debated whether to start deleting them all over again.

It’s not that I’m not attracted to people, or that the chat is terrible (although my matches could be more inventive than opening with “where are you based?”). It’s that dating in your forties is wildly different to dating in your twenties and thirties.

When you aren’t driven by the need to get married or have kids, you have to really examine why you’re doing it. At the start of this year, I went on a date that was neither bad nor good. My date looked like a slightly worse version of his profile photos but nothing wildly off-base, and apart from the fact that he went on abou

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