After three years of being single, I felt like I had exhausted all my options. I fell into the cycle of downloading dating apps, going on a date, feeling disappointed, deleting the apps, and vowing to focus on myself for a while or take up a new hobby – only to repeat the whole process a few weeks later.
I even tried dating events, where you pay £20 to be rammed into a room full of single people with no common interests – and I found the experience to be just as intimidating and fruitless as approaching a man in a bar in real life.
