Even with all the expert tips, dating apps designed for women, lazy people, and soulmate-seekers — along with all those movies about dating that show us what and what to do — humans still find a way to complicate things.

Her friends smirk, not looking up.“Tinder sucks,” they say. At a booth in the back, three handsome twentysomething guys in button-downs are having beers.
They are Dan, Alex, and Marty, budding investment bankers at the same financial firm, which recruited Alex and Marty straight from an Ivy League campus.
While the term has several meanings, the most frequent usage refers to two people exploring whether they are romantically or sexually compatible by participating in dates with the other.
With the use of modern technology, people can date via telephone or computer or meet in person.
This term may also refer to two or more people who have already decided they share romantic or sexual feelings toward each other.
These people will have dates on a regular basis, and they may or may not be having sexual relations.
Bump number two: You may notice your partner's quirks (and more negative traits), because you have the same ones.
For example, an Aries might notice their own competitive streak when their Aries sweetheart loses it over a game of Catan.
A synodic month is longer than a sidereal month because the Earth-Moon system is orbiting the Sun in the same direction as the Moon is orbiting the Earth.