I've been on dating apps for a solid two years now (tinder, hinge, bumble, OkCupid, Feeld and some other nicher apps). I hear about people who have used tinder for 10 years and I think 'damn they must have some crazy perseverance' because for me, I go through the cycle of hopefulness about the potential of the next swipe being the beginning of our love story, hearing about success stories (I'll be a bridesmaid to success stories this year) to discouragement, cynicism and hopelessness about the apps and the conversations around dating i.e who should pay on the first day, whether you should 'put out' or not, or ghosting culture so I delete them and hope that fate works its magic. I try to be intentional about going out to places, socialising etc. But then I get disheartened at the fact that our currently reality is that many people meeting on dating apps so I redownload then with hopefulness. Does anyone else feel like this? What could be a solution for this personally (my example below) or even via dating apps? Is there anything that dating apps could do, I know there's a pause function where you can take a break but I feel like it'd be nice to have a tailor function on an app that caters to this?

I just downloaded Thursday which is an app where you can only swipe and get matches on Thursday so it kinda meets a need in that i think too much time (using it in my leisure times) isn't the best but thats also backhanded because if I'm not active then there are no matches... 😅 YOU SEE MY PROBLEM HERE?