Dating in mid 20s

There are 3 people you'll date in your 20s. You need to be wary of all of them.

Our 20s are often romanticized. At 29 years old, I still have a lot of living to do and a lot of lessons to learn. I may not have unlimited amounts of energy or that feeling of being indestructible like the 20 year old version of myself. However, in exchange for feeling vulnerable and making a lot of mistakes both in my dating life and professional life over the years, what came out of it was wisdom and emotional maturity. During the pandemic, I had a lot of time to reflect, prioritize, and slow down. While I may not have been diving into another work project and socializing with friends and family like usual, it was one of those rare opportunities that pushed me to go back to getting the fundamentals of my life in order. I was lucky to have a punching bag and an instructor who was willing to get on FaceTime with me a few times a week to help me maintain my sanity. It may sound simple and obvious, but that lesson really makes me think about all the times in my life where I felt stuck, lost, and isolated. It makes me think about everything I tried to master, or everything I felt inadequate about but would try to find the next glamorous and flashy solution for. It even makes me think about the failures I experienced in my dating life in my teens and 20s.

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Teen Vogue' s Twentysomethings Guide is your go-to resource for the more confusing parts of going out on your own. Ideally, one sanctified by a ceremony that costs as much as a college degree. The truth, though, is that there are just as many ways and reasons to date as there are not to date.

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Ready for the 10 best career advice tips that you will ever hear? Here we go There are some phrases so dastardly… so vile… so repulsive… that we refrain from uttering them out of a responsibility to be polite members of society.

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Dating in your 20s (and how to make it not suck)

Being perpetually single has its perks. You get to watch the dating scene evolve before your eyes. You get to experience how people behave when they're in relationships versus when they're single. You also begin to notice trends and patterns in behaviours with certain people. And then you come to the realisation that you've basically been dating the same three people on rotation for the last five years.

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