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Byline: Lisa Bonos Friends can be the best dating algorithm around, especially when you're high profile and hopping on Tinder might be too public a search. Kim Kardashian and Kanye [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos 'Master of None' often dwells in romantic uncertainty. The characters in the Netflix comedy series have pondered: How sure are you - put a percentage on it! [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos and Emily Yahr Hello and welcome back to Arie Luyendyk Jr.'s season of 'The Bachelor.' This week, the crew is in Tahoe; where Arie had a one-on-one [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos The Aziz Ansari you see in public is different from the Aziz Ansari you might meet in private. You might think he wrongly treated a woman we [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos, Emily Yahr and Garrett Schlichte Welcome to week three! We're still in 'who's that?' territory, with so very many contestants. Monday night the women wrestled each other, [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos NEW YORK -Once you've been on 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' dating without cameras trailing your every move has got to be easier, right? Actually, Andi Dorfman [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos Traditionally, the first Sunday in January sees the highest traffic on dating sites and apps, as singles try to make good on their New Year's resolutions to [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos How are you still single? Even when meant as a compliment, this rhetorical question is more likely to land as an insult. It's bad enough when a [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos In Israel, even concerts are political. For international superstars, deciding whether or not to show up might imply what side you're on: Israel's or the Palestinians'. And [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos OkCupid is looking a lot more like Tinder. Look at two changes announced this month. First, messages land in a user's inbox only once two people have [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos Looking for some podcasts to keep you company while traveling over the holidays? Or to listen to as an escape from your family? We've got you. The [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos Even if you haven't read the New Yorker short story that went viral recently, you probably have an opinion about it. 'Cat Person' is Kristen Roupenian's short [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos The women who apply to be on 'The Bachelor' often frame it as an 'I've-exhausted-all-other-options' approach to dating. The franchise tends to paint these women as desperate, [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos Men are so terrified about being the next Harvey Weinstein that, according to the Associated Press, some don't know whether hugging a colleague or saying 'good morning' [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos With Prince Harry's engagement to American actress Meghan Markle, headlines are proclaiming that the 33-year-old prince has taken 'the long route to love' and that the 'third [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos 'My life is mine.' Those words stopped actor Tracee Ellis Ross in her tracks, she said in a speech at Glamour's Women of the Year summit this [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos 'I'm a crazy-sick sex addict like David Duchovny in that show and in real life,' Ilana tells her best friend Abbi on the Comedy Central series 'Broad [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos 'I never met a single person in his life.' That's how Chelsea Clyde, a 29-year-old government worker in Connecticut, characterizes her eight-month relationship with a guy who [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos Though parents in any culture can be known to pressure their children to settle down, this is pretty harsh: In an Ikea ad that was recently taken [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos We love a good ghost story. Not because we condone such careless behavior - never! - but because, unfortunately, so many of us singles can relate. There [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos When you think of a witch, what kind of person do you imagine stirring a cauldron bubbling and boiling with trouble? Woody Allen might conjure up a [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos It's so notoriously difficult to get into the League, the Harvard of dating apps, that fictional characters complain about it on television. On the first season of [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos and Jura Koncius As Hurricane Irma barreled toward Florida last month, Stephanie Kurleman and her family packed up three cars and evacuated to a friend's home. 'I [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos If you've scrolled through the #MeToo posts on social media and thought, 'Gosh, it seems like everyone I know has experienced sexual assault or sexual harassment,' consider [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos Why do people cheat, and how do couples survive infidelity and come out stronger on the other end? Esther Perel has been studying these questions and others [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos SANTA ROSA, Calif. - For the five years that Horacio Hernandez and Laura Gomez rented a two-bedroom home in this city's Coffey Park neighborhood, they'd felt reassured [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos, Amy B Wang and Cleve R. Wootson Jr. SANTA ROSA, Calif. - The deadly wildfires that have ravaged Northern California over the past week - killing dozens [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos, Amy B Wang and Cleve R. Wootson Jr. SANTA ROSA, Calif. - Northern California officials ordered a new round of mandatory evacuations overnight for parts of the [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos There are all kinds of photos that don't belong in online-dating profiles: the shirtless selfie; the faraway shot or the artsy pic where it's hard to tell [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos There's a relationship fantasy that has nothing to with getting physical. Rather, it's verbal. And the climax isn't orgasm; it's that ever-elusive concept of 'closure.' In this [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos Apparently all we needed to determine that Jay-Z had indeed cheated on Beyoncé was a sample of the rapper counting from 1 to 10. According to a [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos Jacklyn Collier, a 32-year-old actor in New York, remembers the moment she realized she was having an emotional affair. Four years ago, she was in bed with [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos Have someone in your life who won't stop texting but won't make plans to actually meet up? He might be bread-crumbing you. Say what?! Dating in 2017 [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos Perhaps the only consensus about plus-ones at weddings is that there is no consensus. Single guests often complain that they're treated as less-than if they can't bring [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos After a Vice documentary about last weekend's Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, featured white supremacist Chris Cantwell, he was banned from Facebook. And on Thursday, [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos A Tinder profile can say a lot. A man with a dog says: I'm ready to settle down. A man holding a fish says: I'm a good [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos When Lisette Pylant realized that her date Monday night had planned several dates at the same bar - each woman coming in one after another - she [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos In 'The Big Sick,' the protagonist's mother, Sharmeen (Zenobia Shroff), is a determined matchmaker. Every time her single son Kumail (Kumail Nanjiani) comes home for dinner, a [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos For a comedy to be romantic, it needs a meet-cute. Part of what makes such a meeting so damn adorable is that it is unexpected or serendipitous. [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos Welcome to Wedding Guest Wednesday, an occasional feature in which Solo-ish explores the joys and woes of attending other people's weddings. Because it's not all about the [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos Being single is not necessarily a problem to be fixed, but it often gets treated that way. In women's magazines that trumpet how to find your soul [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos In 2015, Mandy Len Catron wrote a wildly popular New York Times Modern Love essay - 'To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This' - about the [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos Thankfully, most bachelor and bachelorette weekends do not involve dead strippers, as the new raunch-com 'Rough Night' does. But even a comedy has some elements of reality [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos 'Lisa, you should go to Santorini with a boyfriend,' one of my Greek relatives said while hosting me in the Athens suburbs for a few days before [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos After 33 seasons of 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' viewers will finally see a bit more diversity. Yes, as viewers know, Rachel Lindsay, a 32-year-old attorney from [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos There are plenty of ways to figure out if your work crush is mutual. Maybe you spend time together outside the office to see if there's something [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos If you're single, you know: Dating is expensive. All those cups of coffee and drinks with strangers add up quickly. The average unmarried American spent $1,596 on [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos After any breakup, you're going to need some songs to keep you company and drown out the voices in your head. Here are favorites from around the [...]