My best friend and I are both in our late thirties and single and we've started competing with each other in ways we never used to — comparing dating app matches, getting weird when the other has a good date, making little digs about each other's choices. We both want to find someone but this thing between us is making us mean to each other and I don't know how to stop it without losing the friendship.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people who love each other are letting scarcity thinking around romance poison the very intimacy that could sustain them through the search.
“Where Are You with Single and Searching?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.