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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid went to a 15,000 person school and found his now-serious girlfriend beginning of his sophomore year through online dating. They actually already had a class together but I guess the online thing is a way to make sure you're looking at a pool of people who actually want to have a relationship.[/quote]

I think this is more common now.  A lot of kids this age (especially boys) are too timid to actually make a move.  The dating apps narrow the field to help them be more brave.[/quote] That's an interesting way to spell "not interested in sexually harassing women who want nothing to do with them". What sort of "move" would you want an unattractive stranger making on you, especially as a young woman on her own?[/quote]

Holy cow!  What are you envisioning?  Boys are too timid to even say hi and introduce themselves. [/quote]

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It's people like the PP who are to blame for this shift.  Of course no one wants to be harassed.  But simply saying hi or asking a girl out is not harassing them.  Honestly, jerks like the PP have ruined the dating scene for everyone.[/quote]

My HS kids (son and daughter) both think a boy saying  hi to a girl is “creepy.”  And asking her out = sexual harassment.

Thanks FCPS ! [/quote]

Yep.  Same here.  It's unreal how the past few years have warped what used to be a normal interaction.[/quote]

These kids were in middle school or early high school during Covid. I feel for them - because of quarantine, they missed out on a lot, including the awkward early dating experiments and rituals of the early teen years.

They’ll be ok. They just need to keep trying to talk to each other. If they focus on putting themselves out there and building friendships with lots of different people, including some they might want to date, the rest will follow. [/quote]

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