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I don’t buy your “dating recession”

The collapse of romantic infrastructure is an engineering failure, not a Gen Z character flaw.

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Halina Bennet
Mar 13, 2026
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The Gen Z slander must end. (Photo by MoMo Productions)

I planned five first dates in 2025. I did not attend a single one.

Instead, I’ve taken up matchmaking in a time of dating app fatigue, pairing up my enthusiastic friends for completely blind dates. So my Zoomer friends, at least, are definitely dating, contrary to the many articles that indicate othe…

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