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Is dating draining your bank account? Here’s a cheap solution | Dave Schilling

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Is dating draining your bank account? Here’s a cheap solution | Dave Schilling

I understand gen Z’s concerns about the cost of romance. But anything can be a date if you want it to beA couple of months ago, I wrote a column imploring young people to keep trying to find love, to not become cynical about romance and avoid the temptation of the accursed “loneliness influencers” peddling antisocial behavior as some sort of newfangled experiment that no one had thought of before. I stand here today saying, hey, I can’t be right all the time. Maybe it is better to be alone, since it costs a hell of a lot less.Apparently, young people across the country are forgoing dating because it’s too damn expensive. Or at least, I think they are, based on the multiple newspaper articles saying so that came out in the last two weeks. As the New York Times put it, the “prospect of a tab

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Source The Guardian US News
Published Aug 17, 2026 · 12:00 pm
Article ID ug70nan
Original URL Open source
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