| Title | Are Dating Apps Killing Romance? | |
| Date | Saturday October 10 2015, @05:04PM | |
| Author | cmn32480 | |
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| from the are-they-really-who-they-say-they-are dept. | ||
Historian and TV presenter Lucy Worsley has said romance is dying because it has become "too easy" to meet new people via dating apps and the net.
In an interview with the Radio Times, she said couples no longer faced the obstacles that had traditionally made for strong romantic encounters.
The "slow exquisite torture" of love in Jane Austen novels no longer existed in the age of Grindr and Tinder, she said.
But relationship experts say not everybody is good at commitment.
"There have always been a proportion of people that find it hard to form relationships and, rather than trying to overcome difficulties, who have moved on more quickly to others," counsellor and therapist Peter Saddington, from relationship support service Relate, told the BBC.
On the other hand, people who do marry after meeting through a dating app might be less likely to divorce.
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