DATING SOMEONE WITH A DIFFERENT RELIGION CHANGED MY PERSPECTIVE

"Religion: Christian Orthodox. But it's complicated." This line in Anastasia's profile was both intriguing and, if I'm honest, a little daunting. I was raised in a secular household in Canada, where religion was a topic rarely discussed. My understanding of Orthodox Christianity was based on a handful of documentaries and amounted to about 1% knowl

For three years, my dating life was a blur of swiping right. Tinder, Bumble, Hinge—I was on all of them. My phone was filled with notifications from women I’d never meet and conversations that were 90% "Hey, how was your weekend?" It was a numbers game, and I was losing. The burnout was real. One night, after another date that felt more like