Below, Bianca shares her top picks for the best post-divorce dating apps, as well as expert tips for getting back into the online dating game (or entering it for the first time) as a divorced guy. Fortunately, the right dating apps - used the right way - can help mitigate those difficulties and assuage any anxieties you may have about reentering the dating market after a marriage-length hiatus. “After a divorce, it can be difficult to find someone who shares life goals, core values and who is also in the same ‘life season’ as you,” says Jade Bianca, dating coach, matchmaker and founder of Dating After Divorce. Naturally, a virtual TikTok-inspired Gen Z playground is probably not exactly the kind of environment in which you want to start the next chapter of your adult dating life as a grown-ass man, especially one who has recently gone through a divorce.
Quick update: Tinder is (practically) for teens now, and new dating apps catering to Gen Z are attempting to model themselves after TikTok. Even if you’re not a dating app virgin - yes, Tinder and its ilk have been around long enough that millennial marriages that began with a swipe in the early 2010s are now crumbling - you may find the ever-evolving dating-app landscape has changed significantly since your last right swipe. Depending on your age and how long you’ve been out of the game, however, a post-divorce foray into online dating may well mark your first ever experience with dating apps. As someone who has dated my share of divorcés, I’m familiar with the anxieties and reservations you may have upon reentering the dating space - the online dating space in particular.Īs a newly divorced man in the year 2021, dating apps might naturally be one of the first places you turn when it comes time to start dating again. But while I may not know much about being a divorced man, I happen to know a thing or two about dating one. This is largely because - despite emotionally identifying as a 44-year-old divorcée - I am an unmarried woman in my 20s.
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Full disclosure: I am not now nor have I ever been a divorced man.