Rewriting the Dating Script

In a dating culture where standards and expectations are gone, how does one find a real connection?

Relationships coach Leila Tomasone and her husband Derek. Courtesy of Leila Tomasone

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.”