Where to meet your life partner?
2025-12-03 · Short · Ali · recording, 1:58 · watch on YouTube
Topic: Relationships and personal life · mode: Answering questions
Asked where to meet a partner as an adult, Ali says dismissing dating apps is shooting yourself in the foot, as more than half of long-term relationships and marriages now start there, and suggests putting yourself where people share your interests: dance classes, run clubs, yoga.
What is said
The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).
00:00:00 — Where to meet a romantic partner after school: dating apps and interest-based environments
- ★★ Ali calls school and university an amazing place to meet people; once you get beyond graduation, he says, it is really hard to meet people. — 00:00:13
- ★★★ Ali says dating apps are by far the most common way people meet partners, for serious relationships and marriages too, with more than half of long-term relationships and marriages starting on them. — 00:00:58
- ★★★ Ali says dismissing dating apps as iffy is shooting yourself in the foot, because they are by far the most common way to meet people; it takes work to have an optimised profile and know how to message people. — 00:01:05
- ★★★ To meet a partner, Ali suggests working out who you are interested in and their interests, then putting yourself in those environments, such as dance classes, a local run club or yoga classes, to meet people who share your interests. — 00:01:13
Threads in this video
- restate · How do you find a partner? — Ali says dismissing dating apps as iffy is shooting yourself in the foot, because they are by far the most common way to meet people; it takes work to have an optimised profile and know how to message people. (00:01:05)
- refine · How do you find a partner? — To meet a partner, Ali suggests working out who you are interested in and their interests, then putting yourself in those environments, such as dance classes, a local run club or yoga classes, to meet people who share your interests. (00:01:13)
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