Can you find love on Tinder?

​It all started on a Tuesday afternoon. I got the “Congratulations. You have a new match message.” Well in the middle of dinner I checked to see who it was and didn’t think much about it. I was never one to make the first move. Well my tinder explanation says, “We didn’t meet on Tinder right?” and he used that to start the conversation.

​My phone went off and I was totally expecting a ‘Hi’ or ‘Hey cutie’ the stereotypical lines. It wasn’t that. He created a whole scenario about how we met in history class at our mutual university. Or so he thought. Turns out that there’s two BUs. I had to break the news to him and he took it very well. Then he assumed something about my program and I had to break his heart again. Funny enough, he took it well. We continued to tinder chat the rest of the night until I decided to give him my number. 

​The conversation over text was so easy. We were both funny and trying to make each other laugh while finding out about each other. Well we spent the next days talking, we had a ton of similarities and common interests. I was genuinely surprised. I’ve found with most tinder matches that the conversation usually fizzles after a few days but we were always talking. I found myself looking forward to my shift being over and checking my phone. That was then I knew that I wanted to meet this one.

​We arranged for a date. I was surprisingly not nervous. I was excited. I wanted to see if this guy could meet my expectations in person. Well, I could tell when I was walking up to him that I had made the right decision. He looked like his picture (thank god), he was tall, dark and handsome. I was very happy. Right from the get-go we had no trouble chatting. I was thrilled, it’s always hard to know whether it’s gonna be awkward or not. We chatted away at the restaurant without really looking at our menus and then ordered. The whole time the conversation flowed. 

​We decided to go to grab coffee, change the scenery. This was were I became even more attracted to this man. We were totally open and honest with what we wanted and what we were coming into the situation with. It was refreshing to not have to hold anything back. I’ve never felt that need with him. That was when we had our first kiss. We’d been holding hands for most of the the night. The kiss felt natural. In a way, it was weird. It wasn’t like a first kiss with jitters. It was no big deal, almost as if we had done it a thousand times before. It was then that I decided to go back to his place with him.

​We drove separately to the restaurant and so I followed him to his place. The only downside is he lives almost an hour away from me. We got to his house and he rushed to clean it up which I thought was super cute. We finally settled we started kissing and once again it was wonderful. We ended up sleeping together and it was great. Once again, I had the feeling like we had done it before. We were laying in bed next to each other naked and I wasn’t ashamed of my body. I didn’t think twice about anything. It was just seamless. The whole night was seamless. I hadn’t laughed or enjoyed myself that much ever on a first date. 

​I drove home and deleted tinder. I don’t know what our future holds and it is a little scary to feel this invested this soon but its also thrilling and exciting. So stay tuned, because maybe you can find love on tinder after all.