FaceTime: check. Socially distant walks: check. Sexting: “Go crazy,” says a local dating coach.

While at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, we dropped in on a dating seminar for single Republicans. The mostly male audience left a bit disappointed.

Photo by chip py Is this why I see so many man-boobs around the D.C. region? In the latest ruminations on dating in the city, D.C.’s male population has ranked 10th among best cities to find a romantic suitor. But according to Chemistry.com’s resident mad scientist, “most romantic” could correlate to “highest estrogen” in our bloodstreams. Great, I guess that means we should stop popping our mothers’ hot flash medication. Fortunately, the ranking, which…

For some reason, the Washington Post is lending a ton of space today to a celebration of the fifth anniversary of its Date Lab feature — a constant source of entertainment for us DCist editors in which the paper fixes people up with one another and documents their dates. (Journalism!) But based on the results, if Date Lab was a real dating service, they’d probably be have to declare bankruptcy.

Relationships are hard. They’re fun, they’re weird, they’re sometimes awful. For some reason, a bunch of overheards recently deal with male-female relationships. Maybe it’s the birds and the bees, or the ridiculously hot weather and humidity just do something to people. Not always good somethings, though. Overheard of the Week Walking through Dupont Circle: Young female professional talking very loudly on her cell: “I can’t believe you are seeing someone who beats people with a…

Relationships, as anyone can tell you, are hard. Even after you find that special someone, you have to communicate and sacrifice. You have to understand the other’s wants and needs, and you often have to put them first. And sometimes you have to transfer. Or go to Virginia. Hey, love is a battlefield. And frankly it’s best when folks hash these amative difficulties out in public, so that we can all get a nice…