Looking for Something Serious: Stories, Laughs, and Lessons from a Decade of Online Dating

Looking for Something Serious: Stories, Laughs, and Lessons from a Decade of Online Dating

Looking for Something Serious tells a story that is painfully relatable to many modern daters: going on countless online dates looking for love, but never finding a lasting relationship. By sharing her own tumultuous ride through a decade of dates, the author normalizes struggling with dating and investigates the enormous emotional toll that comes with engaging in so many micro-relationships. This story is an unsparingly vulnerable exploration of love addiction, confusing situationships, repeated rejections, relationship anxiety, alcohol's chokehold, and coping with a relentless fear of ending up alone. With a necessary dose of optimism, this book provides hopeful insight and hard-earned wisdom about what it means to "fail" at dating apps...and still find a happy ending anyway. Lauren Josephine found her passion for writing about love at age 19 after a devastating breakup. She then moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in her early 20s and began a decade-long dating journey in which she went on over 200 dates in a tireless search for love. The years of struggle, frustration, and loneliness eventually inspired her to write a book to help others feel less alone on their dating journeys. Lauren's mission as an author and a human in the world is to be an advocate for single people everywhere by validating just how emotionally taxing a modern dating journey can be. Her writing offers the encouragement, comedic relief, insight, and solidarity that every modern dater deserves in their search for love.