Coming out of a nine-year relationship which started right out of high school, today’s modern dating scene is practically a jungle to me.

The last time I had to navigate dating was when I was a wide-eyed student in a relatively homogenous Catholic school. Back then, dating was as straightforward as it could get: you liked someone, interest reciprocated, then he (it was usually the guy) asked you to be his girlfriend. From then on, the mindset was that you both would end up married. This remains true for some of my old friends coming from the same background.

The dating scene I have to navigate now defies everything I knew then.

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