“At 36 without a baby or a boyfriend, I’m firmly in the panic years. This is how it shapes my approach to dating”

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“At 36 without a baby or a boyfriend, I’m firmly in the panic years. This is how it shapes my approach to dating”

By Rachel Thompson

3 months ago

6 min read

“These days, when a date doesn’t go well or when a situationship flops into nothingness, I feel anxiety about my fertility welling up inside of me,” writes Rachel Thompson, author of new book The Love Fix. She shares how the timeline pressure inherent to ‘the panic years’ has radically shifted her dating life.


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