A couple years ago, I produced a few segments in which I answered viewers’ questions about dating. Rightly so; it’s a hot-button topic. I have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-do-you-know-theyre-the-one-candace-owens-answers-questions-on-dating" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said it before</a> and I will say it again: Dating does not have to be as difficult as people make it out to be if you know what you are looking for in a significant other. So, I am revisiting some questions I have received over time to answer and give my thoughts.
<h4>Q: What are your thoughts on saving kissing for marriage?</h4>
My husband and I did not kiss until after we were engaged; however, that was mainly because of logistics and how quickly we got engaged. I don’t think kissing before marriage is a problem, and I don’t think it’s wrong to kiss someone before you get married. Ultimately, I would never expect someone to save kissing for marriage.
<h4>Q: What are your suggestions for a relationship in a rut with a lot of frustrations?</h4>
Some of the greatest words of wisdom I ever heard about being in a relationship was: When you’re dating someone, that is as good as it’s ever going to get. Many people believe if your relationship gets in a rut, marriage will be the solution to get out of that rut. They think <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/an-important-message-to-women-everywhere" target="_blank" rel="noopener">once you get married</a> and once you have children, the relationship will magically turn into “happily ever after.” (Women in particular hold this perspective, thinking that as soon as they get the ring, things will get better.) But that’s just not true. When you’re dating, you experience an emotional high, the relationship is fairly smooth, and you’re genuinely excited. If you start to see that taper off before you’re married, pay attention to those signs. You may not have found the person you’re meant to do life with.
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<h4>Q: As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-vulnerability-that-will-plague-generation-tiktoks-future">a Gen Zer</a>, I wonder where I can find masculine men?</h4>
This problem is in large part due to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-a-story-all-about-how-the-fresh-prince-did-not-become-a-king" target="_blank" rel="noopener">culture telling men</a> to be more effeminate — and I’m sure that’s super frustrating. <a href="https://store.dailywire.com/products/make-men-manly-again-t-shirt?_pos=1&amp;_sid=4ee384564&amp;_ss=r" target="_blank" rel="noopener">(Make men manly again.)</a> But what you will find is that the more effeminate men live in city bubbles, but when you move into the rest of America, you will run into farmers, rangers, men who are working with their hands, and masculine men. Masculine men do exist.
<h4>Q: Do you keep in touch with or follow any exes?</h4>
Absolutely not. I am incredibly conservative when it comes to this issue. If you are in a relationship with another man, it’s super disrespectful — especially in a marriage — to maintain a relationship with a previous partner. I have never gone along with the “it used to be more but now we’re just friends” bit either. This is a definite no for me.
<h4>Q: I seem to be more mature than guys my age which makes it hard to date and find someone who will commit. Any tips?</h4>
This is fairly common. Men take a bit longer to mature than women, but, on average, they seem to mature somewhere in their mid-twenties. There are always exceptions, but as a general rule, younger men just tend to be a little more immature than younger women. There are likely some biological aspects to this because, for example, women likely mature quicker because we have to carry children on a biological clock’s dictations. But even little girls like playing with dolls while little boys like to rough house. Men do, however, eventually grow into being ready to commit and in a serious relationship.
<h4>Q: What is the best place to meet <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/three-new-years-resolutions-for-women-on-the-internet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quality women</a> who aren’t fickle?</h4>
This answer is short and simple: church.
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<h4>Q: I have been with the same man for eight years. I called off our engagement because he’s still not ready, but we can’t seem to leave each other. Advice?</h4>
Leave. I knew two girls who went through a similar situation (relationships of about ten years each), and they both ended poorly. These women gave these men their best years. Meanwhile, men tend to age like fine wine — plus, they don’t have to worry so much about their reproductive vitality. That’s not the case for women. So, if you are giving someone years to make a decision and his decision is still “I don’t want to make a decision,” you are, unfortunately, a placeholder. He will likely meet another girl, get engaged quickly, and you will be left wondering what happened to the last decade of your life. I feel so terrible for women who have gone through this. But in both cases with the two women I knew, they knew they should have left earlier, but they didn’t muster the strength to do it. Have the strength to do it. Leave. Don’t be someone else’s placeholder.
<h4>Q: There is a girl I like, but I’m nervous to ask her on a date. How should I ask?</h4>
Just ask her. The worst thing that can happen is that she says no. And while you’ll have a bruised ego for a couple of days, you will have done something manly in the long run. Girls are missing men asking them on dates — men who hold doors and have the confidence to ask women on dates rather than <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-everyone-hates-online-dating" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hiding behind apps</a> of Instagram DMs. Ask her to grab lunch or see a movie. If she says no, you’ll move on and find someone else to ask out.
<h4>Q: What is a good at-home date night idea?</h4>
I think cooking together is fun. My husband is also a good cook, so we enjoy doing that together. We also love to watch shows together. Granted, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kids-entertainment-out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new" target="_blank" rel="noopener">we have children</a> so we stay in more these days, but we love a good at-home dinner-date night.

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A Q&A On Dating: Stop Making It So Difficult

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Bond star Teri Hatcher said she&#8217;s done with online dating — after being kicked off one of the major dating platforms because they simply didn&#8217;t believe it was actually her.
During the 59-year-old actress&#8217; appearance on &#8220;Getting Grilled with Curtis Stone&#8221; <a href="https://getting-grilled-with-curtis-stone.simplecast.com/episodes/teri-hatcher-O4wTvhYE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a>, Hatcher said she was &#8220;open and vulnerable&#8221; to trying to find a good man on the Hinge dating app, but things did not go as planned.
&#8220;I  tried Hinge. I thought, you know, I&#8217;m gonna say to the universe that I am open and vulnerable and I&#8217;m putting myself out there,&#8221; Hatcher said.
&#8220;That&#8217;s what I thought my gesture of joining the Hinge app would be, and then they kicked me off,&#8221; she added. &#8220;They thought I was pretending to be Teri Hatcher.&#8221;
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&#8220;I complained. I was like, &#8216;Can I have my money back? You can kick me off,'&#8221; the &#8220;Desperate Housewives&#8221; star continued. &#8220;Anyway, they apologized.&#8221;
The actress said it was when she asked for a refund on her subscription the company revealed they thought her account was fraudulent, but then &#8220;figured it out.&#8221;
Despite the whole incident being resolved, the &#8220;Tomorrow Never Dies&#8221; star said she&#8217;s &#8220;over it&#8221; and not going to use online dating apps to find a good man.
&#8220;I&#8217;m definitely done with the dating apps, and I feel like if there&#8217;s any way I&#8217;ll go somewhere and meet someone, that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s gonna have to be,&#8221; Hatcher said.
She was then <a href="https://pagesix.com/2024/01/31/entertainment/why-teri-hatcher-was-abruptly-kicked-off-dating-app-hinge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pressed</a> about why she would not try other dating platforms, like the exclusive dating app Raya, and explained she&#8217;s tried several different dating platforms.
&#8220;There is, but those guys only want to date 30-year-olds, so, there is that fancy app you&#8217;re talking about,&#8221; Hatcher replied.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t meet people. I don&#8217;t meet anyone,&#8221; she added. &#8220;If you come up with someone, let me know.&#8221;
&#8220;Honestly, I&#8217;m happy. I have a really full life, a really busy life. I have beautiful friends, you know. It&#8217;s fine,&#8221; Hatcher continued, joking, &#8220;I don&#8217;t need a man — I have a cat.&#8221;
Hatcher was previously married to Marcus Leithold from 1988 to 1989, before she tied the knot with Jon Tenney in 1994. The two divorced in 2003 and they share 26-year-old daughter, Emerson.

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Bond Star Teri Hatcher Says She’s Done With Online Dating

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Colombian-born actress Sofía Vergara, best known for playing a trophy wife on the hit ABC sitcom “Modern Family,” recently made headlines when she revealed the reason for the dissolution of her marriage to fellow actor Joe Manganiello. She said it was because he wanted children, but at 51, she was feeling too old to welcome any new babies.
“My marriage broke up because my husband was younger; he wanted to have kids and I didn’t want to be an old mom,” the actress told Spanish newspaper El País, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sofia-vergara-says-her-marriage-to-joe-manganiello-ended-because-of-dispute-over-having-kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. “I feel it’s not fair to the baby. I respect whoever does it, but that’s not for me anymore.”
While Manganiello doesn’t have any children, Vergara does have a 32-year-old son, Manolo.
“I had a son at 19, who is now 32, and I’m ready to be a grandmother, not a mother. So, if love comes along, he has to come with [his own] children,” the “Griselda” star added.
“I’m almost in menopause; it’s the natural way of things,” Vergara went on. “When my son becomes a dad, let him bring the baby to me for a while and then I’ll give it back to him and go on with my life; that’s what I have to do.”
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Though the actress mentioned her adult son in the conversation about becoming a mom again, she has more children who were never mentioned at all. Vergara neglected to bring up unborn embryonic children she created with her ex-fiance, Nick Loeb, who she’s been battling for custody for years now. Loeb insists the children, which were created in 2013, should be born. But Vergara disagrees, preferring to keep the two embryos frozen “indefinitely.”
Vergara and Loeb were together for two years and during that time they went through IVF in an effort to have children. After failing to achieve pregnancy while using a surrogate gestational carrier, the couple was left with two embryos in storage.
The drama began after the former couple broke off their engagement in 2014. Both Vergara and Loeb signed an agreement saying that neither one could use the embryos without the written consent of the other. But later, Loeb argued that the contract did not lay out guidelines for what would happen if the couple broke up, which he saw as grounds for nullifying the agreement entirely.
Loeb’s first lawsuit for custody of the embryos was filed in California, but was later dropped when the judge demanded Loeb to provide names of former girlfriends who allegedly had abortions after Loeb got them pregnant, per <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/sofia-vergara-embryo-case-could-open-floodgates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Beast</a>. Loeb later said at least one former girlfriend had an abortion against his wishes. 
The frozen embryos were stored at a facility in California, but Loeb filed another lawsuit in Louisiana due to the couple having broken up in that state. That lawsuit, which was filed in 2016, named three plaintiffs: two embryos named Isabella and Emma, and James Charbonnet, a New Orleans resident who was identified as a trustee for the unborn children.
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This LA lawsuit also attempted to terminate Vergara’s parental rights over the embryos, claiming she had abandoned them at the cryopreservation facility in California. Loeb had intentionally chosen Louisiana because of their unique laws about embryos. A state law passed in 1986 classified embryos as “judicial persons” who could sue or be sued.
The case was dismissed in 2017 on the grounds that Louisiana had no jurisdiction in the matter as the embryos were created in California.
Loeb has been very forthcoming about why he’s interested in having his embryonic children be born. In a 2015 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/opinion/sofiavergaras-ex-fiance-our-frozen-embryos-have-a-right-to-live.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a> for The New York Times, he said he’s always “dreamed of being a parent.” When responding to Vergara’s request to keep the embryos frozen indefinitely, Loeb wrote, “keeping them frozen forever is tantamount to killing them.”
“When we create embryos for the purpose of life, should we not define them as life, rather than as property?” Loeb asked in the op-ed. “Does one person’s desire to avoid biological parenthood (free of any legal obligations) outweigh another’s religious beliefs in the sanctity of life and desire to be a parent?”
Vergara hasn’t said much about the situation publicly over the years. But she did reply to Loeb’s NYT op-ed after it was published in 2015.
“I really want to make this, like, the last time I talk about it because I don’t think it’s fair,” Vergara told ABC News during an interview on Good Morning America. &#8220;I don’t understand why this person [Loeb]—I don’t want to allow this person to take more advantage of my career and try to promote himself and get press for this.”
“This shouldn’t be out there for people to give their opinion when there’s nothing to talk about,” the actress added.
Despite being turned down before, Loeb filed another lawsuit in April 2023, this time taking aim at the Beverly Hills assisted reproductive technology clinic where the embryos were created. Loeb accused the clinic operators of not providing sufficient warning or documentation about what would happen to the embryos in the event of a breakup.
&#8220;I never would have gone forward with creating what Sofia and I regarded as lives if I knew that she would not consent, or that she wanted to thaw and destroy the embryos, in the event of a breakup,&#8221; Loeb said, per <a href="https://lamag.com/news/nick-loeb-is-still-holding-sofia-vergara-hostage-over-10-year-old-frozen-embryos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles Magazine</a>.
&#8220;I am pro-life and pro-parenthood and my religious views are such that I believe that life begins at conception,&#8221; Loeb added. &#8220;Throughout the course of our relationship, I expressed these views to Sofia, who similarly expressed to me that she was a devout Catholic and therefore also believed that life begins at conception. She told me that she regarded embryos as &#8216;lives.'&#8221;
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Nick Loeb is also known for directing, writing, and starring in the pro-life film “Roe v. Wade,” a political legal drama which premiered in 2020. The film starred leading conservative celebrities including Jon Voight, Stacey Dash, and Robert Davi.
Loeb starred as Bernard Nathanson, a real-life gynecologist who co-founded the abortion rights organization NARAL Pro-Choice America and who later converted and became a vocal pro-life advocate.
The debate over the legal rights of frozen embryos has been raging for years as IVF technology becomes more common and in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision, which found that the Constitution of the United States does not confer a right to abortion. This effectively sent the legality of abortion back to the states to decide individually.
Dobbs also raised questions on when human life begins and whether unborn embryos should also be treated as human persons. Though there is no official count, it is estimated that there are as many as 1.5 million frozen embryos currently being stored in cryopreservation facilities.

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In theory, online dating should be great. There is a wide range of dating apps and sites with differing personas. Singles have so many more options and can scroll through carefully polished profiles as they wait for their post-brunch Ubers. The reality, however, is less romantic. What appears to be the perfect modern solution for the age-old challenge of finding a life partner may actually be making your goal more difficult.
Yes, certain sites, like Christian Mingle and eHarmony, cater to those looking for a serious relationship or marriage. And many are.
Yet the more mainstream applications and sites seem to have alternative end goals. As Jon Birger, journalist and author of Make Your Move: The New Science of Dating and Why Women Are in Charge, has pointed out, in the 2019 annual report of Match Group — the parent company of Match, Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, and Plenty of Fish, — the words, “married, marriage, wedding, couple, boyfriend, girlfriend, spouse, husband, and wife” do not appear.
<a href="https://ifstudies.org/blog/5-questions-with-family-studies-jon-birger-on-womens-untapped-power-in-todays-dating-market" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Such dating apps make a profit</a>, not by creating permanent couples, but “by attracting new customers and by retaining old ones,” Birger notes. “A lot of apps like Tinder make money off advertising, too. So, every time a Match or Tinder member gets married and stops using the apps, that’s one fewer paying customer.” Further, he adds, “Tinder, Match, and OkCupid do not want to get you off the market. They want to transform you into lifelong shoppers.”
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Match Group “admits as much in its annual report, boasting that ‘successful experiences &#8230; drive repeat usage.’ Translation: Start dating someone terrific on Tinder, and you’ll keep returning to the app to find someone even more terrific.” For many, the combination of this perverse incentive structure and the addictive nature of the apps leads to a cyclical lackluster experience that goes on for years.
Of course, dating applications (like job placement services) must be mindful of maintaining a positive reputation to attract people in the first place, and “marriage” not appearing in the annual report of Match Group is also a reflection of shifting views on relationships. Yet, it is also the case that dating applications develop and promote a virtual dating culture of their own, sometimes mimicking how women and men normally tend to interact with one another, and other times exacerbating and elevating the most negative of human impulses.
The user-selected filters (such as height preferences) on the sites and apps vary. Some are more robust and substantive, others sparser and shallower. All have benefits and downsides. They necessarily narrow a daunting pool of people.
But many apps impose additional algorithmic filters of their own that give top priority to looks, and users are sometimes filtering out people virtually they might very well consider in person. (Physical attraction is certainly important, but dating profiles that are almost solely comprised of photos, like those on Tinder, operate as hook-up advertisements.) There is a delightful mystery to attraction and compatibility that defies algorithmic precision.
Personal filters are also only useful if users know what they’re looking for in a partner, which is not always the case. Those in their 20s seldom have a clear and immutable vision of their futures, as indicated by the fact that the average college student changes his or her <a href="https://utulsa.edu/normalizing-the-norm-of-changing-college-majors/#:~:text=On%20average%2C%20college%20students%20change,new%20study%20from%20the%20EAB." target="_blank" rel="noopener">major at least three times</a>. Further, in “<a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2004-17367-002" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: Report of a 25-Year Study,”</a> University of California, Berkley professor Judith S. Wallerstein and San Francisco State University professor Julia M. Lewis found that children of divorced parents are often unsure of what to value and look for in their future spouses. And the generations migrating to dating apps are <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2010/03/22/missing-mom-or-dad/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the least likely</a> to have been raised by both parents. 
Unsurprisingly, men and women filter through profiles in different ways. Men tend to take a scatter-shot approach, liking a high number of profiles in hopes of a few reciprocations they will later comb through in more detail. They generally <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-state-our-unions/202208/whats-behind-the-rise-lonely-single-men" target="_blank" rel="noopener">outnumber women on the apps</a>, sometimes two to one. As a result, women can <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/02/key-findings-about-online-dating-in-the-u-s/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">become overwhelmed</a> and bombarded by messages from men who may or may not have read their profiles. Women’s way of filtering is to raise their standards and sometimes dismiss men for minor flaws or infractions. Many men and women imagine there is someone better out there and become addicted to the slot machine-like experience of scrolling through seemingly unlimited profiles.
In addition to being deflated by cognitive dissonance, female users of dating apps and platforms can develop a skewed perspective of men. The majority of female online daters have been sent an <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/02/key-findings-about-online-dating-in-the-u-s/">unsolicited sexually explicit image or message</a>. Individuals who utilize dating apps are <a href="https://ifstudies.org/blog/who-uses-dating-apps">more likely to engage</a> in sexual deception, have negative drinking and sexual behaviors, and have adversarial sexual beliefs (“e.g. how much participants agreed with statements like ‘Sex is like a game where one person ‘wins’ and the other ‘loses’”). These are not preconditions for positive interactions and can influence future dating behavior; women, more than men, report being single because they <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00746/full">are afraid of getting hurt</a>.
Women &#8220;swipe right&#8221; only <a href="https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/women-more-selective-80-men-unattractive-on-dating-apps-recent-research" target="_blank" rel="noopener">about 30% of the time</a>, and men with above-average combined income and education receive about <a href="https://ifstudies.org/blog/on-internet-dating-sites-women-prefer-men-with-higher-incomes-and-more-education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">three times as much interest</a> than those with average income and education levels. Dating app algorithms also boost the most “liked” profiles. As a result of these dynamics, a small percentage of male users receive a lot of attention. Often, they do not want to commit to a relationship, and a hook-up culture prevails.
Some will find online dating exciting for a while, and others really will find love. But what’s next for those who, finally frustrated with dating apps, give up on romance altogether? Many still wish to have a family. Turns out, there’s an app for that too. Just a Baby, which matches co-parents and sperm and egg donors <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/swipe-right-sperm-donor-new-tinder-style-app-matches-prospective-n756821" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“is like Tinder on prenatal steroids,”</a> and the app Nodal is <a href="https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2022/09/21/nodal-launches-tech-surrogacy-5-million-seed">“Bumble for surrogacy.”</a>
Such applications seem like the next step for those left unmoored by the <a href="https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-tech-trajectory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tech trajectory</a>. As one Millennial woman preparing to freeze her eggs for the second time <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/swipe-right-sperm-donor-new-tinder-style-app-matches-prospective-n756821" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarked</a>, “I believe social media has ruined dating: It&#8217;s a hook-up culture, and no one gets to know each other long enough to know if they would be suitable partners beyond the romantic sense. Oftentimes I’d go on meaningless dates, get stood up, blown off, or ghosted. How will those odds ever lead to a successful marriage or kids? Likely it won&#8217;t. And it&#8217;s rather exhausting.”
The dynamics of dating apps are disheartening, and <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/02/key-findings-about-online-dating-in-the-u-s/">polls indicate</a> that about half of users have found the experience very or somewhat negative. This could open up the opportunity for creative ways of introducing singles in person, like speed dating, matchmaking, or singles’ events. Moreover, being cognizant of the negative impacts of the tech trajectory and where it leads will hopefully encourage singles to prioritize more traditional and embodied means of meeting: through friends, family, and at church.
That’s easier said than done, and to be sure, it requires a fair amount of work. But considering the exhausting and dispiriting experience of online dating today, surely it’s worth the effort.
Brenda M. Hafera is the assistant director and senior policy analyst for the Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Pop icon <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taylor-swift" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taylor Swift</a> accepted NFL star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/travis-kelce" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Travis Kelce</a>’s invitation to attend a game at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City to watch him play.
The 33-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">singer</a> was caught on video leaving the venue on Sunday with the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kansas-city-chiefs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kansas City Chiefs</a> tight end walking closely by her side.
The video appeared to show Swift saying “bye” as they left the stadium together. This moment came after Swift watched the Chiefs play the Chicago Bears from Kelce’s suite alongside Kelce&#8217;s mother, Donna Kelce, and could be seen talking and laughing with her throughout the game.
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Swift donned a red-and-white Chiefs jacket for the occasion. Ultimately, the Chiefs bested the Bears 41-10.
This turn of events comes just days after Swift and Kelce made headlines following an interview the two-time Super Bowl champ did with ESPN’s “The Pat McAfee Show.” 
“It’s life, baby,” Kelce told McAfee when asked about the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/travis-kelce-on-taylor-swift-dating-rumors-threw-the-ball-in-her-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dating rumors</a>. “I threw the ball in her court and told her, ‘I’ve seen you rock the stage in Arrowhead. You might have to come see me rock the stage in Arrowhead and see which one’s a little more lit.’ We’ll see what happens in the near future,” he added.
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“It’s hilarious how much traction this has actually got,” Kelce went on, referencing the rumors. “It’s like an old game in school called ‘Telephone,’ where everybody is just whispering in each other’s ear, just hearing some random stuff. No one actually knows what’s going on.”
Travis’s older brother, Jason Kelce, an offensive lineman for the Philadelphia Eagles, added fuel to the fire during a conversation with 94 WIP in Philadelphia on Wednesday.
“It’s hard to answer, because I don’t really know what’s happening in Travis’ love life, and I try to, like, keep, you know, his business kind of his business and stay out of that world,” Jason said when asked if he knew anything about his brother dating Swift. “But having said that, man, I think he’s doing great. I think it’s all 100% true.”
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NFL player <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/travis-kelce" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Travis Kelce</a> addressed rumors that he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dating" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dating</a> megastar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taylor-swift" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taylor Swift</a>, which have been heating up in recent weeks.
The Kansas City Chiefs tight end made the remarks during an appearance on ESPN’s &#8220;The Pat McAfee Show&#8221; Thursday. He didn’t confirm the rumors, but he didn’t deny them either, deciding instead to let fans in on a few small details.
&#8220;It’s life, baby,&#8221; Travis told McAfee when asked about the rampant rumors. &#8220;I threw the ball in her court and told her, ‘I’ve seen you rock the stage in Arrowhead. You might have to come see me rock the stage in Arrowhead and see which one’s a little more lit.’ We’ll see what happens in the near future,&#8221; he said, referring to the home stadium for the Chiefs.
“It’s hilarious how much traction this has actually got,” Travis continued. “It’s like an old game in school called ‘Telephone,’ where everybody is just whispering in each other’s ear, just hearing some random stuff. No one actually knows what’s going on.”
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Travis’s older brother Jason Kelce, who also plays in the NFL as a center for the Philadelphia Eagles, helped fuel the rumors during a conversation he had with 94 WIP in Philadelphia on Wednesday.
&#8220;It’s hard to answer, because I don’t really know what’s happening in Travis’ love life, and I try to, like, keep, you know, his business kind of his business and stay out of that world,&#8221; Jason said when asked if he knew anything about his brother dating Swift.
&#8220;But having said that, man, I think he’s doing great. I think it’s all 100% true,” he added.
The rumors were kicked off by an <a href="https://themessenger.com/entertainment/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-charming-seeing-where-things-go-source" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> in The Messenger which stated that Travis had been &#8220;quietly hanging out&#8221; with Swift for weeks. 
&#8220;She and Travis have hung out twice, and it&#8217;s nothing serious. She thinks he is very charming, and they have been texting this last week,&#8221; an unnamed source told the publication in late September. &#8220;He is a little embarrassed at how much attention they are getting, but he has told her he would love to continue seeing her.&#8221;
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Travis has mentioned Swift before. The Chiefs player said during a July podcast appearance that he was “disappointed” he didn’t get to interact with the pop star when he attended one of her shows.
&#8220;I was disappointed that she doesn’t talk before or after her shows, because she has to save her voice for the 44 songs that she sings,&#8221; Travis said at the time. &#8220;So, I was a little butthurt I didn’t get to hand her one of the bracelets I made for her.”
He added, &#8220;If you’re up on Taylor Swift concerts, there are friendship bracelets, and I received a bunch of them being there, but I wanted to give Taylor Swift one with my number on it.&#8221;

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There is no question that online dating is changing the human experience. Daters evaluate photos, read a few facts, and decide whether to pursue the person in the profile. Dating apps give so many options, and, of course, it can give analysis paralysis. There is such a thing as having too many options. But the people I have talked to about their experience on dating apps all seem to say the same thing: They hate the apps. They’ve told me the apps can be a good way to meet people, but in general, they are having a pretty miserable experience. Yet they are still engaging in them. The reasons people don’t like the apps are different, depending on whether they are male or female. 
I’m fascinated by the online dating world. I have never actually engaged in online dating, only because when I was of the age when online dating apps came on the scene, I was in a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, and I had longer relationships thereafter. I just never had a need to date online, but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t have. I understand why people do it. Times are changing, culture is changing, and people find dating online to be more convenient. I think this is especially the case as you get older because your lifestyle changes. Maybe you’re not hitting the bar every Friday and Saturday and brunching all day on Sunday. Maybe you want to stay home more. Maybe you’re cooking more. So, you’re not meeting as many people. All of that makes sense to me. But people overwhelmingly say they don’t love the app experience.
I asked a few men about the online dating world, and their number one complaint was that women lie about how they look. Apparently, women are heavily editing their pictures and posting them on these dating apps. Then, when a man shows up to a date, maybe the woman looked like that 20 years ago — or 20 pounds ago. But the woman in the photo looks nothing like the one sitting in front of him. This seems like a bizarre concept. What is the purpose? She thinks she was going to dupe him or that once he sees her, he’ll stay for her personality? The idea is, the guy is going to see you. In fact, if I had an online dating profile, I would use a picture in which I looked slightly less attractive than I do in real life because I would want the guy to be pleasantly surprised when he meets me. So why are women lying about how they look? Why are they pretending they have a different smile, body, skin tone?
When I talked to women about using dating apps, their number one complaint was that men will reach out to them, say hello, and start a conversation. But when they respond, the guys go cold. With the guys, they are reaching out to women, making an effort, and then never responding to them. That’s also strange. 
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To try to understand the motivation behind this, I asked women why they heavily edit their photos. One responded saying that cameras add a few extra pounds. (I could go along with that if we were still in the ‘90s before technology was really figured out. But I don’t think that holds true in 2023.) Another woman said she edits the lighting or background but not anything of herself. That seems fair. A third woman said she is not photogenic, and other women agreed with this because sometimes when you see someone in person, they look more attractive than in a photo.
But it is the next person who I believe gave the honest answer. She said she edits herself to impress and because of her own insecurities. I think this is the answer that really gets to the heart of the issue. It seems a lot of women are editing photos because they do not anticipate meeting in real life. Often, when people are feeling insecure or lonely, the apps give them something to do while also boosting these ladies’ self-confidence as men send messages commenting on their beauty or desire to date. If the date never materializes, at least they feel they were picked first; at least they feel like men were looking at them. That’s why, if they’re honest, women are essentially lying and advertising something that isn’t real.
On the male side, the issue seems to be different. The way their mind processes these apps seems to be a numbers game. If a man reaches out to 40 girls, all with varying looks, he might receive a message from four A-plus girls. So, he decides he’ll focus his time on just those four; if no A-plus girls return a message, he will move down the line. The men are thinking that eventually they will catch a big enough fish.
This is one of the ways in which the world has promoted an advancement that has actually become a regression. People don’t know how to speak to each other, lack confidence to have face-to-face conversations, and hide behind apps. People don’t have the confidence to address their own insecurities, so they linger behind apps. They are comfortable behind apps. As our confidence is shrinking, we are telling the world more lies, and perhaps, even worse, we are telling ourselves lies.
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A 23-year-old woman avoided jail time Wednesday after stabbing her blind date last year in a Las Vegas-area hotel room to get “revenge” for the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani. 
While on a blind date with Daniel Trevino, a man she connected with on the dating app Plenty of Fish, Nika Nikoubin blindfolded Trevino and stabbed him in the neck with a kitchen knife while the two were having sex in a hotel room, according to police, 8 News Now <a href="https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/singer-who-wounded-blind-date-in-las-vegas-area-hotel-room-over-death-of-iranian-leader-gets-probation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Nikoubin, who came to the U.S. from Iran when she was 12, was indicted last year by a Las Vegas grand jury on charges of attempted murder and two counts of battery, and she later agreed to plead guilty to two counts of false imprisonment with the use of a deadly weapon. Instead of a jail sentence, Judge Carli Kierny ordered Nikoubin to serve three years of probation. 
Trevino, who survived the stabbing, told Kierny that he has “the scars to show for it,” adding that he has “chosen to forgive but whatever the law decides to do, that’s up to the law.”
Bodycam footage from law enforcement obtained by 8 News Now showed Nikoubin telling officers that she stabbed Trevino out of “spite and revenge” for the drone strike ordered by President Donald Trump that killed Soleimani in January 2020. 
“I mean the U.S. killed Soleimani. Lots of blood spilled,” she said. “So, I feel like, it’s fair that American blood be spilled.”
“We were drinking a little bit and then — I guess we started to get into it and then I stabbed him,” Nikoubin added. 
Nikoubin’s lawyer argued that Nikoubin had a psychotic episode during the stabbing, and Kierny cited Nikoubin’s mental health issues as the reason she sentenced her to probation. The 23-year-old also told the judge she was raped when she was 18 and “did not fully realize the impact that this experience had on me and my mental health deteriorated.” Nikoubin also claimed she was in a mental health facility for ten days before meeting Trevino. 
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Nikoubin attended classes at a university in her home state of Texas while under house arrest, but a police representative for the university said their department did not know she was on house arrest in their jurisdiction. The judge said it appeared that the agency in Dallas monitoring Nikoubin only tracked her location and did not check to see if she had violated her curfew or other provisions. Nikoubin was later banned from the university’s campus, but her lawyer argued she did not violate any terms of her house arrest and said she did not have a connection to any terrorist organization.

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Conservative dating app “The Right Stuff” went viral on TikTok for poking fun at men in women’s sports. 
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-dating-app-for-young-conservatives-made-by-former-top-trump-aide">The Right Stuff</a>, founded by former senior Trump aide John McEntee, took to TikTok four months ago to playfully mock liberalism. The account has since gained more than 400,000 followers, 120 million views, and 17 million likes. 
One TikTok, viewed nearly a million times, features footage of McEntee working out along with audio saying, “This is Emily. Her dream is to win the women’s national championship. But transphobic Republicans are keeping her from her dream.”
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“She may be five times as strong and ten times as fast as the other women, but she feels it&#8217;s her place to compete, and that’s all that matters,” the clip continues. “Emily deserves equal rights,” the satirical video’s caption reads.
Another TikTok portrays McEntee as a high school tennis player who wasn’t getting any playing time. Then, after he “switched” genders and began identifying as a woman, went on to win a state championship.
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One TikTok, which follows McEntee through Target’s “Pride” section, garnered three million views.
McEntee tells The Daily Wire that his team has &#8220;a blast making these videos and are thrilled to have such an engaging audience.&#8221; While McEntee is prominently featured in The Right Stuff&#8217;s viral videos, he credits the social media manager, who he calls &#8220;the brains behind the TikTok operation,&#8221; with the app&#8217;s success on the platform.
The social media strategy appears to be working. The dating app had 4,000 downloads in January, doubled that figure a month later, then doubled again in March. 
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The Right Stuff, based in Southern California, currently has 40,000 monthly active users. It plans to launch a “Friends” feature this summer, which will allow users who aren’t single to find others in their area who share their beliefs.

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The new TLC show “MILF Manor” is getting slammed for going too far even by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/reality-tv">reality TV</a> standards, which already set the bar low.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">series</a> follows eight single moms in their 40s and 50s who are seeking to meet much younger men in their 20s and 30s. The acronym “MILF” stands for “Mom I’d Like to F***.” However, these women find out during the first episode that their adult sons are interspersed into the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dating">dating pool</a>.  
Clips posted to the official TLC TikTok account have garnered reactions such as, “vile,” “gross,” “weird,” “horrendous,” “disgusting,” “disturbing,” and the “most uncomfortable show ever.”
The New Yorker <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-television/the-motherlovers-of-milf-manor">review</a> said “MILF Manor” represents a “new low” and “perhaps even a rock bottom” for reality television, saying it’s “haunted by the [specter] of incest.”
Show participants received a message that said in part, “You are now in the same dating pool. Open your minds and have an experience you may never have imagined,” which referenced how moms and sons would be mingling together in sexually charged situations. The moms also share bedrooms with their sons, which critics point out is also indicative of the mothers coddling full-grown adults. 
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A real estate broker and fitness coach named Kelle Mortensen said, “I’m so excited to meet these other guys … sorry ladies I might be sleeping with your son,” <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/01/milf-manor-disgusts-viewers-critics-a-rock-bottom/">per</a> The New York Post.
The publication noted that one son described his mother as “kinky” when guessing that she was one of the women who admitted to having sex in an elevator. Another mother defended her breasts getting so much attention, telling her son, “It didn’t bother you when you were sucking on them (as a baby) either … you were really thirsty.”
“Beyond Freud’s wildest dreams,” one commenter <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@nc3520/video/7189140738754530606">replied</a> to a clip of the show. 
“MILF Manor” currently has a 17% critic score and 22% audience score on <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/milf_manor/s01">Rotten Tomatoes</a>. 
“Faith in humanity lost,” one reviewer shared. 
“Wildly disturbing,” another person wrote. “A combination of everything wrong with the world.”
Meanwhile, the show’s creator defended the concept, calling it an example of female empowerment. 
“I don’t really understand what all the fuss is about,” Daniela Neumann, managing director of Spun Gold TV, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/01/30/milf-manor-reality-show/">told</a> The Washington Post. She insisted that the show seeks to erase the stigma of older women dating younger men if they want to.
“No one’s doing anything wrong. And these are all consenting adults,” Neumann continued. “I don’t really understand it, but I think that anything that provokes conversation is a very positive thing.”

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‘Beyond Freud’s Wildest Dreams’: New Reality Dating Show ‘MILF Manor’ Slammed For Inviting Moms And Sons Onto Sexy Island

'Beyond Freud's Wildest Dreams': New Reality Dating Show 'MILF Manor' Slammed For Inviting Moms And Sons Onto Sexy Island

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Rapper Amber Rose said she&#8217;s done with the dating scene, calling it &#8220;disgusting,&#8221; and saying that she&#8217;s ready to be single and celibate for &#8220;the rest of my life.&#8221;
During the 39-year-old performer&#8217;s recent appearance on the &#8220;Sofia with an F&#8221; <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/muva-sloot-ft-amber-rose/id1533822662?i=1000596672603" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a>, Rose — born Amber Rose Levonchuck — did not beat around the bush when she explained why she&#8217;s perfectly willing to be single, <a href="https://people.com/music/amber-rose-i-want-to-be-single-for-the-rest-of-my-life-amid-ex-alexander-edwards-cher-romance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People magazine</a> reported.
&#8220;It&#8217;s worse than ever,&#8221; the rapper explained about the dating pool. &#8220;They&#8217;re pretty disgusting out here. They&#8217;re f***ing gross. Like, I wanna be single for the rest of my life.&#8221;
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&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to share my house or my life with anyone,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want anyone around my kids. I don&#8217;t want to have sex. &#8230; It&#8217;s so gross. I don&#8217;t want it.&#8221;
The model/actress also said she’s fine with &#8220;being by myself,&#8221; especially because all the good ones are married, she added.
When pressed further by the host over how she felt about the idea of being &#8220;a lesbian,&#8221; the rapper said she was &#8220;okay&#8221; with it, but reiterated, &#8220;I&#8217;m very happy to not be in my bed with anyone.&#8221;
Rose was previously involved romantically with a handful of stars, such as 21 Savage, Kanye West, and ex-husband Wiz Khalifa.
She is a mom to two children, 9-year-old son Sebastian with ex Khalifa, and 3-year-old son Slash with ex Alexander &#8220;A.E.&#8221; Edwards, the outlet noted.
Rose&#8217;s comments come following reports that Edwards, 36, is dating singer Cher, 76. The two first made headlines in November after being spotted holding hands while out and about in Los Angeles.
Cher later confirmed the two were dating as she defended their 40-year age gap, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cher-76-shrugs-off-40-year-age-gap-with-her-new-boyfriend-haters-are-gonna-hate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported.
In the singer&#8217;s since-deleted tweet, she wrote, &#8220;LOVE DOESN&#8217;T KNOW MATH, IT SEES.”
In December, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chers-ring-pic-fuels-engagement-rumors-with-boyfriend-who-is-40-years-younger" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cher</a> explained what exactly draws her to the music producer during her appearance on &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD0aO7SA7Dw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Kelly Clarkson Show</a>.&#8221;
&#8220;Well on paper, it&#8217;s kind of ridiculous,&#8221; the singer shared. &#8220;But in real life, we get along great. He&#8217;s fabulous. And I don&#8217;t give men qualities that they don&#8217;t deserve.&#8221;

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Rapper Amber Rose Says She’s Done With Dating, Ready To Be Single And Celibate For ‘The Rest Of My Life’

Rapper Amber Rose Says She's Done With Dating, Ready To Be Single And Celibate For ‘The Rest Of My Life’

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Singer John Mayer said he doesn&#8217;t &#8220;date that much&#8221; anymore and addressed his past &#8220;womanizer&#8221; label, shutting down the idea he was ever into something that wasn&#8217;t long-term.
During the 45-year-old&#8217;s appearance on the &#8220;Call Her Daddy&#8221; <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/4F3hMI3DxwwNPTcaTxnyid?si=500f49d95ce3420f">podcast</a>, host Alex Cooper asked Mayer about his past relationships.
&#8220;Dating is no longer a codified activity for me, it doesn&#8217;t exist in a kind of… it&#8217;s not patterned anymore,&#8221; Mayer explained.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t really date — I don&#8217;t think that I have to, to be quite honest,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I quit drinking like six years ago, so I don&#8217;t have the liquid courage. I just have dry courage.&#8221;
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The &#8220;Your Body Is A Wonderland&#8221; hitmaker previously dated several celebrities, including Jessica Simpson, Taylor Swift, Jennifer Aniston, and Katy Perry.
&#8220;I feel like I was made to believe growing up that if somebody liked me that was pretty much an accident,&#8221; Mayer shared. &#8220;And that should be capitalized on. And so I felt very deeply when somebody liked me. Very deeply.&#8221;
&#8220;&#8216;I think, look, the elephant in the room is that I&#8217;m on a show [entertainment] that caters to women, and I have a couple of nameplates on me, like &#8216;Lothario&#8217; and &#8216;womanizer,&#8217; and stuff I think, look that is what that is,&#8221; he added, noting that maybe he had a &#8220;hand in it or something.&#8221;
&#8220;Every relationship I&#8217;ve ever been in was devoted to the idea that this could go the distance,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;My entire life, today included, if you told me that I could have a great two months with someone but it would end on the first day of the third month, I would not be interested. I&#8217;ve always sought potential for a long-term relationship.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.complex.com/style/john-mayer-fear-of-god-jerry-lorenzo-2018-cover-story/">Mayer previously</a> said that he decided to quit drinking alcohol after suffering from a hangover for nearly a week after attending Drake&#8217;s 30th birthday party. He said he got to the point where he didn&#8217;t want to make a &#8220;fool&#8221; of himself anymore or sacrifice his career.

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John Mayer Says He Doesn’t ‘Date That Much,’ Addresses Past ‘Womanizer’ Label

John Mayer Says He Doesn’t ‘Date That Much,’ Addresses Past 'Womanizer’ Label

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