Women these days, finding out that dating apps are basically just hookup apps, have been putting all their hopes on “meeting in real life,” supposedly at somewhere like Home Depot.
This never happened in the past.
Family, friends, work, school, and community (church/neighbors) were the big methods of finding a wife or husband. “Bar or Restaurant,” which we will have to take as the category approximating everything that lies outside of these other categories, was never more than about 20%. And, even that is a kind of defined social space where “approaching” is deemed acceptable. From this I conclude that recent hopes that trying to meet someone somewhere else — a park or beach, a store like a supermarket, public transportation, etc. — probably isn’t going to work very well.
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