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When parents and adult children discover each other on dating apps

My teenager and I both know dating apps are problematic but we're both on them for different reasons and we accidentally saw each other's profiles, and now we're in this strange position where we want to have an honest conversation about digital dating but we're also mortified. We both want to be authentic about the experience but there's this generational weirdness and privacy boundary that makes it almost impossible to discuss.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The collision of generational dating experiences on the same digital platforms creates both opportunity and terror around authentic conversation.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Dating apps — the examined life?”

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