Meeting potential partners online has come along way from anxiously asking people 'A/S/L' on chat rooms. Thanks to Tinder, you can literally get a date in a few swipes on your phone**. **
****And sure, they can't all be winners (we all know at least one person who's been on a disastrous Tinder date) but if you luck out, you can end up with someone you would have never met otherwise. If you meant your S.O on Tinder, the following will be so, so real...
1. First things first, you and your S.O have a pre-agreed line to tell people how you met, in case your grandma/boss/parents ask.
And as long as you both remember that you chose dinner party/flat warming/at a bar, you'll be fine.
2. You originally stuck to the story about how and your S.O first met, but then you realised it’s 2015 and no one cares if you met on Tinder.
It's just not a big deal, tbh. #SorryNotSorry.
** 3. You’re used to people assuming your relationship is just a fling. Even when you've been together for 2 years or more.**
Hell no, this one is a KEEPER.
**4. You’re also used to people giving you side-eye for being on Tinder in the first place. **
Hello? It is 2015. If you've not even looked at a friend's dating app out of curiosity, that's definitely weirder.
** 5.You do feel a tiiiny bit left out when people regale you with their adorable stories about they met their S.Os – especially if it involves anything that really belongs in a Richard Curtis film.**
You're never going to have that whole star-crossed lovers vibe. But hey, didn't work out so well for Romeo and Juliet, did it?
6. But then you remember all the frogs you had to kiss, and then you don’t feel so bad.
You EARNED this good'un. You sat through awkward drinks and hours of terrible, terrible conversation that made you want to throw your phone into the ocean.
** 7. You can swap hilarious Tinder dating stories with your S.O with no shame.**
In fact, they were probably one of the things you bonded over on your first dates. You've both been there.
**8. **People love telling you about all their friends who met their partners on Tinder all. The. Time.
As if you needed the validation that your relationship is legit.
**9. **People have said to you ‘My friend uses Tinder – did you ever see them?’
Uh, no? We’ve all swiped right more times than we have hot dinners. Faces are hard to rememeber, let alone names.
**10. **You do worry about what you’ll tell your kids, though.
Er, it'll be fine...