Dating for the deaf

Until Deafness Do Us Part : Deaf-Hearing Relationships

I met Cameron, my friend, at a bar. The name rang a bell. The date only lasted 10 minutes as there was no chemistry and ended with him begging for me to come back to his place. I declined. He gasped along with me. The nerve of that guy! But it got me wondering. Did I really trick him?

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I celebrated with girlfriends. Dating is a weird complex. Guys and girls go about dating in completely different ways. How each party perceives a certain situation feels like ying and yang, black and white, but somehow people make it work. I became more and more aware of the guy-girl contrasting dynamic when I hit 12 or 13 years old, just as we were all hitting puberty.

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Opinion: Are hearing people afraid to date us?

Romantic relationships take a lot of work. But what if one person is deaf and their partner is hearing, are deaf-hearing relationships possible and if so, is it worth the effort? I was in a relationship with a hearing guy for 7 years. My next relationship was with a deaf man, and we just understood each other, it was very easy. Curious about how other deaf and hard of hearing people experience deaf-hearing relationships, I took to Facebook and posted the question to my friends.

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