The best dating apps aren’t even dating apps
It’s no longer taboo to meet your partner on the internet. The evidence is everywhere: It’s on your refrigerator door, where you’ve hung up the wedding invitations of friends who met on Tinder. It’s on your Instagram feed, where a friend shares a sappy post about her one-year anniversary with a woman she met on Hinge.
But when Zeke Rothfels tells people that she met her husband online, she’s not talking about swiping left until she finally found the right guy. She’s talking about cultivating a relationship across the U.S.-Canada border with a man she met in a Facebook meme group.
“I think we both felt kind of like, is this crazy?” Rothfels told TechCrunch. “Do I acknowledge that this feels like something, or will that ruin it?”
It was crazy, but it was also real — six years later, Rothfels is reminiscing about meeting her husband after she’s just put their 2-year-old child to sleep.
