However, that doesn’t mean you have to shell out money to find your future partner. (Unless some temporary fun is what you’re looking for, of course!)Īnecdotal evidence shows that if you’re willing to pay for an app, then you’re more likely to match with others who are also serious about finding love. That’s certainly not to say that you can’t find lasting love on Tinder, it’s just that most people don’t use it to find something long-term and serious, so you might as well skip it. I was fairly certain that Tinder wasn’t right for me-it just felt like the kind of thing you use to have fun in your 20s-and most of my pals agreed. Luckily, I had friends with plenty of experience in the online dating world to direct me to the best of the best dating apps.
After a seven-year relationship unexpectedly ended in my mid-30s, I knew that I had no choice but to get on dating apps, despite never having used them before.