Friend Swiping, or using or managing your friends’ dating profile for prospects, is a fun activity for many young people around the world, hooked in the foggy world of online dating. 
Swiping for friends has an appeal that exceeds the fun of managing one’s own profile.

Friend Swiping

Love & Relationships

Many young, single people are curious about dating apps but don’t want to display their own moniker to others, afraid of appearing desperate and uncool.
They quell their Dating App FOMO (fear of missing out) and general fascination about online match-making by grabbing their friend&#39;s phone and checking out profiles, curious to know more about the kind of people who are attracted to each other.

Dating App Curiosity

Many apps like Tinder are designed and positioned as a game, while not being called so. People who are out of the game seem to quench their thirst about it by looking at how others play it and playing it for them too.
Many dating app users have ‘dating app fatigue’ or ‘swiping fatigue’ and are more than happy to hand the reins over to their trusted friends, who enjoy the proxy match-making.

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Swiping For Friends: Why Managing Others' Dating Apps Is So Damn Fun!

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<li>Give detailed records of what all happens to you, communicating everything to your partner. Make it comprehensive and thorough.</li>
<li>Active listening is another overlooked aspect of communication, which we assume is only about blabbering. Listening gives us clues to what we should be doing, but we are too full of our own thoughts to give an ear to our partner.</li>
<li>Long-distance communication happens mostly on the phone, email, video calls, or text messaging. All the more reason to listen well as there is less body language and facial expressions involved.</li>
</ul>

Communicate And Listen Well

Do romantic stuff like sending a personal letter, or some flowers when the time is right. It is also a good idea to keep negative feelings like jealousy outside of the relationship.
Romance loses its power when you keep a score of what all you have given and received. This is not a game.

Don’t Lose Your Romance

It is good to ask yourself how much you love your partner, and what life would look like without this person in it. This exercise snaps you back to reality if your love is real.

Understand Your Love

Keep apologizing for all your mistakes. Find new, creative ways to apologize and mean it. Say sorry even if you think you are right.

Keep Saying Sorry

How to make long distance work? Have your own rules that are based on trust, patience, and love. Here are 7 commandments to serve as your guide.

The Commandments of Long Distance Relationships | Everyday Power

Good relationships take commitment and effort.
The challenge for couples is cultivating a mature and trusting love that is the key to a lasting relationship.

Commitment, Love, and Romance

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<li>Romantic love: Based on passion and sexual attraction</li>
<li>Best friends: Fondness and deep affection</li>
<li>Logical: Practical feelings based on shared values, financial goals, religion etc.</li>
<li>Playful: Elicit feelings by flirtation or feeling challenged</li>
<li>Possessive: Jealousy and obsession</li>
<li>Unselfish: Nurturing, kindness, and sacrifice</li>
</ul>
In our most committed relationship, we feel a combination of two or three different forms of love. Understanding what forms of love your partner appreciates can help your relationship.

Finding Your Love Style

Romantic and passionate love can fade over time and mature into a committed love.
Couples can rekindle the sparks of early courtship simply by doing something novel together. Studies show that partners who regularly share new experiences report greater boosts in marital happiness.

Reignite Romance

Committed couples do have more sex than everyone else. But Americans who are not having that much physical intimacy are just as happy as their more active counterparts.
Sexual frequency declines 3.2 percent a year after the age of 25. But the good news is that what married couples lack in quantity they make up for in quality. *

Physical Intimacy

Ways you can protect your relationship:
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<li>Avoid opportunity. Avoid situations that could lead to bad decisions, such as late nights with colleagues.</li>
<li>Plan ahead for temptation. Remind yourself of steps you will take to avoid temptation and protect your relationship.</li>
<li>Picture your beloved. Focus on loving thoughts and the joy of your family.</li>
<li>Keep your relationship interesting.</li>
</ul>

Staying Faithful

Learn to fight constructively. The aim is to leave you feeling better about your partner.
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<li>Identify the complaint, not the criticism.</li>
<li>Avoid &quot;you&quot; phrases. &#39;&quot;You never&quot; and &quot;You always&quot; followed by criticism.</li>
<li>Consider your pronouns. Starting your sentence with &quot;I&quot; or &quot;We&quot; will help identify problems, rather than blaming.</li>
<li>Body language. No eye-rolling, folded arms, or crossed legs. Look at your partner when you speak.</li>
<li>Learn to de-escalate. Useful phrases include &quot;What if we...&quot;, &quot;I hear what you&#39;re saying...&quot;</li>
</ul>

Handling Conflict

Fights about money are really about a couple&#39;s values and shared goals and seldom about finances itself.
<ul>
<li>Be honest about all your spending.</li>
<li>Maintain some financial independence. Both sides can have their discretionary pot of money to spend on whatever they want.</li>
<li>Invest in the relationship. When you do have money to spend, spend it on the relationship.</li>
</ul>
The top three predictors of a happy marriage among parents are:
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<li>Sexual intimacy</li>
<li>Commitment to the relationship.</li>
<li>Generosity. It&#39;s about sharing, caring and kind gestures you make toward your partner every day.</li>
</ul>

Why Couples Fight

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<li>Stay generous toward your partner. Continue to express your affection. Do small things for your partner like bringing them coffee.</li>
<li>Personal growth. If your partner is helping you become a better person, you become happier and more content.</li>
<li>Be decisive. Intentionally define your relationship.</li>
<li>Invest in relationships with friends and family.</li>
<li>To strengthen a marriage, consider asking less. That means leaning on others for emotional support from time to time.</li>
<li>Watch a love story. A movie about relationships can help couples work out problems in the real world.</li>
</ul>

Make It Last

Good relationships don’t happen overnight. They take commitment, compromise, forgiveness and most of all — effort. Here we offer the latest in relationship science, expert advice, fun quizzes and helpful tips to help you build a stronger bond with your partner.

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In 2000, a government survey showed that about 2.7 million married Americans lived apart from their spouse. The number rose to about 3.9 million in 2017.
Long-distance relationships today are different from 15 years ago. Economic and technological developments are making couple&#39;s love lives more closely resemble those who live together.

Couples living apart

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<li>Before video-chat and long-distance phone calls, written correspondence was used to exchange meaningful information. The goal was to write about the most important things that had happened since the last letter.</li>
<li>Although the telephone was invented in the mid-19th century, it was only used for long-distance relationships in the 1970s, when the cost of phoning for pleasure instead of just business became affordable.</li>
<li>The next major development in romantic communication was the internet. Email, instant messaging, and video-chatting were affordable for couples to share even the smallest details.</li>
<li>Many couples today do &quot;background Skype&quot; where everyday living comes to the surface and add to a level of intimacy.</li>
</ul>

The evolution of romantic communication

In the past, couples were more likely to accommodate only one partner&#39;s job - mostly the man&#39;s. But today, couples have dual-incomes, are well educated, professionally minded, and pursuing careers in separate places. It is contributing to the rise in long-distance relationships.
The pressure to live apart for work is worse for younger couples who are still establishing careers.

The pressure to live apart

Living apart is not a guarantee the relationship will come to an end. Long-distance relationships have powerful emotional and intimacy dynamics.
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<li>Research found couples living in different places have more stable and committed relationships, but when they do start living together, they&#39;re more likely to break up than couples who lived together all along.</li>
<li>Long-distance couples were more likely to idealize each other. </li>
<li>They tend to fight less since there was less to fight about and less time to fight. </li>
<li>They were also more likely to avoid conflict and withhold their real opinions.</li>
</ul>

How well long-distance relationships work

Communication technologies cannot reproduce the physical touch. It is also not suited for seeing how a partner treats other people.
However, studies show that the technological shift gives couples more opportunities to address potentially charged subjects and reduce idealization. Living apart over a long period gives some couples tools that help them deal with future conflicts.

When technology creates more opportunities

The same technological and economic developments that are pulling couples apart are also making geographic separation less stressful and more enjoyable.

The New Long-Distance Relationship

Too much is expected of modern relationships: your partner is supposed to fulfil roles that historically used to be spread out within communal structures. Your partner is supposed to be your best friend, lover, psychotherapist, child-care co-worker, and dishwasher.
What is essential during a crisis is to create boundaries, routines, and rituals. As best as possible, separate daytime and evening, week time and weekend, working time and idle time, family time and individual time. Routine creates a structure and brings a certain sense of order.

Creating routines

During the pandemic, being at home with a partner reveals the &quot;invisible work&quot; they&#39;re doing, which may be taken for granted. This expanded view of ourselves and our partners can go in two directions. 
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<li>In one direction, you are curious and say, &quot;I never knew. I really appreciate it. I realize how I let you do everything.&quot; It becomes a source of connection.</li>
<li>It the other direction, it becomes a source of blame where you want to complain and tell your partner just how much you are doing. This way, you&#39;re not going to get help.</li>
</ul>

How to respond to the "invisible work"

Couples go through harmony, disharmony, and repair. So they will inevitably get into arguments. However, what matters is how you fight. Don&#39;t highlight everything negative while taking the positive for granted.
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<li>Start by saying to yourself, &quot;What are the one or two things that they have done that I can appreciate?&quot; If you start with that, you will fight differently.
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<li>Stay focussed on the one thing that you&#39;re upset about at this moment. Don&#39;t end up talking about other things.
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</ul>

How people should fight

During disasters, our priorities get reorganised. The extra often gets thrown out. Changes get made. &quot;We will move. We will change jobs. We will live closer to our parents.&quot; There are so many new openings.
The cracks in relationships may be amplified, but the cracks can also let the light shine through.

The positive side of a crisis

While couples are stuck together during this crisis, it&#39;s important to know that they&#39;ll turn on each other and take things out on each other. This is normal.
Instead of fighting, admit it together, and go from &quot;I and you&quot; to the &quot;we.&quot; &quot;What is this doing to us? What does &#39;us&#39; need at this moment?&quot;

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