What is Heart to Heart?
Heart to Heart is a series designed to celebrate and showcase our community. It’s where our members get to tell their stories; the good, the bad, the serious, the one night things, the heartbreaks, and the epiphanies—stories people will connect with, no matter the outcome.
Below we have a collection of stories from, Badoo members, each offering up their unique dating stories.
Rosa
“I don't want one-night stands. I’m at a different stage in my life. I want to meet someone.”
Lately, I've said that I don't want one-night stands. I'm at a different stage in my life and I want to meet someone, so I’ve put it in my profile: "Please, no one-night stands".
Five years ago, I was living in Paris and I met a boy. We just had a fling, nothing serious. We met up two or three times, but then I got a boyfriend. Three years later, I went to Amsterdam to finish university. I was walking down the street, and I bumped into him! He was on holiday in Amsterdam, so we went for a coffee and caught up. We're still in touch, and he's coming to see me next week! Let's see what happens.
To be continued...
Pabllo
“We lived near each other for ten years and I never had the courage to talk to him…”
I don't think Peter and I would have met if it hadn't been for Badoo. We lived near each other for almost ten years, and I never had the courage to talk to him. It was when I saw him on the dating app that I got the courage to send him a message.
The first time we met in person was at a BBQ that my brother was having. So I invited him to come to the BBQ as well, and he ended up meeting my family and half my group of friends on our first date! I wasn't looking for anything serious and I always loved being single. But it was a good surprise.
Johanna
“If I want to ask someone out, I’ll go ahead and do it…you shouldn’t say ‘Right, I’m going to wait a certain number of weeks.’ Go with how you feel.”
The key moment for me, in deciding to go out on a date with someone, really comes when we have a good chat. If we don't have to force the conversation, then there’s a really good feeling.
If I want to invite someone out, I'll go ahead and do it. You shouldn't say "Right, I'm going to wait a certain number of weeks and then we can go on a date." I don't think you should put yourself under pressure and I think you should really go with how you feel. It could be the next day, you never know. Sometimes you get on so well with a person, that it just clicks straight away. So you have to go for it.
Alice
“It's a lot more awkward to go up to a woman in a bar because you don't know how they'll react or if they are queer themselves.”
Being a queer woman, I think dating apps are really important. They’ve really helped me. I think people are more open on their profiles about what they're looking for. A lot of people I know use dating apps just to make friends as well, which isn’t what I feel it was like four years ago – the last time I was dating.
It's a lot more awkward to go up to a woman in a bar because you just you don't really know how they'll react or if they're queer themselves. Whereas [dating apps] take away that first level of awkwardness. You know straight away that, yes, they are queer, and yes, they do actually find you attractive.
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