Rewriting the Dating Script

Rewriting the Dating Script
Relationships coach Leila Tomasone and her husband Derek. Courtesy of Leila Tomasone
Catherine Yang
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Clients come to Leila Tomasone with questions, failures, and just sheer confusion about their love lives.

“Dating—what does that word even mean?” asked Tomasone, a relationship coach and mother of two based in Virginia. As a matter of fact, dating hasn’t been around that long, she points out. Marriages used to be arranged, and courtship in modern history was a fairly transparent public affair. “Young men would call a young lady’s home and the family was there, and they‘d pick up the phone and they’d want to know what’s up with this guy.”
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