I met my wife on one of the apps. For the life of me at this point I don’t remember which one.

I had all but given up on the entire idea of online dating and was ready to delete my profiles. I had spent years, and embarrassingly some actual dollars on these apps, sent probably thousands of messages over the years and had a handful of first dates and little else to show for it.

I was the first person my wife connected with. Not that she hadn’t dated before, just had never used an app to do it.