Today's dating world is trash. No longer are the days where you can just go out on a nice date, enjoy it and then go home and repeat the process. There is no respect anymore. If you go out on a date with someone, a million questions have to be answered. How many other girls are they talking to? How often are they on Tinder? Why hasn't he texted me back all day? Instead of enjoying the time we spent with them, we have to analyze every moment. Who were they texting during our date? Why was I not interesting enough that he has to even pull his phone out? Cell phones are a terrible way to communicate. So much interpretation is lost in texting. What could mean something so simple can come across as a tragic ending to something beautiful over a text message. We spend all day checking our phones just to see if he's texted back. And then what? You guys go out on another date and you think things are going great until the dreaded question comes up. "What are we?" This will send them into a downward spiral of things you don't want to hear. No one wants to commit to something in today's dating era. They'll tell you "oh, we're just friends." or "I don't want a relationship right now." which leaves you so confused because then why are they doing all the things a boyfriend would do for you and not want a relationship? You get led on and hurt and then you start back again at the beginning of the process and the same thing happens time and time again. It turns beautiful, confident girls into girls who don't think they deserve a loving relationship. When they finally find someone that will treat them right, these once confident girls end up not even giving him a chance because he is different than what they're used to.

It's sad with how the dating game goes. Cell phones may be great, but they take away from face-to-face conversation that is so vital in a relationship. You don't have to go out on a date to get to know someone. You just text them all day and then in two weeks, they have you all figured out. They get bored. You have nothing to talk about in person because you have already exhausted your whole life through text. Relationships based on texting are doomed from the start. Where is the fun in having real conversations? How can people honestly give their whole life story away over text? They make you feel so great when they send you a text that makes your day, but then when you meet in person, there is nothing special about conversation. Then when it's finally over, you don't even get a face-to-face breakup. They'll text you saying it's over, taking the cowardly way out. There are no emotions involved, and they don't have to deal with you being upset.

I forever wish that our generation's way of dating was old-fashioned. Pick me up at my house and meet my roommates. Bring me flowers and plan the whole night instead of shooting me the text "I don't care. We can do whatever." That to me says exactly it. You don't care. You don't care about spending time with me or getting to know me. Take me to dinner and ask me about myself, because I want to know more about you. Instead of texting me about things, call me or come pick me up and we can talk.

I'm ready to be in a relationship with someone that I don't have to question their every move or their love for me. They prove it every day and care about me. If you have this person, treasure them, because it's so hard to find something like that in the generic dating world that exists today.