{"id":27467,"date":"2022-04-12T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/?p=27467"},"modified":"2022-04-11T09:55:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T16:55:28","slug":"report-dating-post-covid-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/report-dating-post-covid-is-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Dating Post-Covid is HARD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Copy-of-Small-1024x672.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Copy-of-Small-1024x672.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Copy-of-Small-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Copy-of-Small-768x504.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Copy-of-Small.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The last two years have been tough for everyone &#8211; but perhaps the group that struggled most were singles. A new study suggests that even now singles are having a hard time getting back into the swing of things. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/2022\/4\/9\/23012680\/dating-among-pandemic-toll-as-coronavirus-sent-finding-a-date-online-pew-american-family-survey\">Via Deseret:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Americans who are \u201csingle and looking\u201d often complain that it\u2019s hard to find compatible companions. The COVID-19 pandemic has made a tough task even harder, according to a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2022\/04\/06\/most-americans-who-are-single-and-looking-say-dating-has-been-harder-during-the-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a>\u00a0from Pew Research Center.<\/p><p>In a poll conducted in February, 7 in 10 single adults said their dating lives were not going well, wrote Anna Brown, a Pew research associate who focuses on demographic trends, in the research brief released Wednesday.<\/p><p>That\u2019s a slightly higher share than the two-thirds who just before the pandemic said things weren\u2019t going well. At that time, three-fourths said it was hard to find people to date.<\/p><p>Now, most single men and women say the pandemic has made dating even harder, while about a third say it\u2019s roughly the same. Just 3% believe dating is now easier than it was before COVID-19 hit.<\/p><p>According to the survey, 71% of daters younger than 30 say it\u2019s harder, compared to 58% of those who are older.<\/p><p>Meanwhile, most single Americans (56%) say they are not even looking for a partner right now. <strong>Not even for casual dates. <\/strong>About 3 in 10 say the pandemic is part of the reason they\u2019re not looking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey singles &#8212; get outta that funk. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\">Come on over and join OBC<\/a> to see what you might be missing out on!<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-27467\" data-postid=\"27467\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-27467 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last two years have been tough for everyone &#8211; but perhaps the group that struggled most were singles. A new study suggests that even now singles are having a hard time getting back into the swing of things. Via Deseret: Americans who are \u201csingle and looking\u201d often complain that it\u2019s hard to find compatible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating-and-sex","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27469,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27467\/revisions\/27469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}