Farewell, disco pash: How the pandemic has changed dating – Sydney Morning Herald
As it turns out, a pandemic can change a lot of our once-normal behaviours, including many age-old dating rituals. But despite the disruption to many of the ways we used to meet and match, nothing will stop our inherent need for connection or a spark of chemistry.
“It’s important not to put dating on hold just because you can’t go to a house party – it doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else”, says Sharon Draper, eharmony’s relationship psychologist. “There are still options, and it’s important to try and think out of the box. You just need to adapt.”
“There are still options, and it’s important to try and think out of the box. You just need to adapt.”Credit:iStock
In the end, people will do what they do, just with perhaps more hand sanitiser and video chats. Ahead, some of the classic dating practices that are no longer quite the same.
Impromptu bar-hopping dates. At least for the time being, with everything needing to be planned, “let’s see where the night takes us” is not in our dating vocab. While spontaneous evenings – bouncing from one bar to the next, stopping for gelato on the way – was once the pinnacle of
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