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Can you tell if you will have chemistry via apps?

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ThatZippyMauveNewt · 11/03/2025 15:00

Do you think you can tell if you will have chemistry with someone online via a dating app without meeting in person?

Also what do you think makes it more likely to click in person?

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Sodthesystem · 17/03/2025 02:48

Wwwagonwheels · 11/03/2025 15:24

I read advice from a well known Agony Aunt who wrote for a newspaper a long time ago

Her top tip, was to meet someone in person & to smell them

Evidently, it is all about the pheromones !

I wouldn't be surpeised tbh.

I went on a few dates with a guy last year who kept wearing a thick jumper and I kept hoping he'd wear a damn shirt so when I hugged him I could get more of a 'sense' of things to gage if I was attracted to him or not.

I was putting it mostly down to not knowing if he had a dad bod or a spare tire or was a bodybuilder under it. You couldn't tell. But I think smell/ phermones may have played a part too. Too covered up to get any feeling of what was what.

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