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You're Looking for 'The One.' These Dating-App Users Are Looking for
'Another One.'

Open-relationship enthusiasts crash mainstream romance apps, creating
confusion among those who prefer monogamy; 'I do not want to be an
accouterment'

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Emil Lendof/The Wall Street Journal, iStock
By Katherine Bindley
Jan. 18, 2024 8:00 am ET

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Many people using dating apps are on them looking for "the one."
Increasingly, they're running into profiles of people looking for a
second, third or fourth. 

The monogamists say mainstream dating apps like Hinge and Bumble are
being inundated with users who are in consensual open relationships,
and they'd like them to go find their own app.

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