I have spent over a decade writing about international dating. I have seen men fly across three continents for a woman they met on a Tuesday. I have watched real love stories begin in the most unlikely places. I have also watched good people get badly burned. So when I started hearing whispers about AI […]
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I was scrolling through comments on a post about AI companions late one night when one sentence made me stop. A guy, maybe twenty-two, wrote: “At least she listens.” Not “she’s perfect.” Not “she’s always available.” Not even something dramatic. Just that. Seven words sitting there quietly like they weren’t saying anything important. I couldn’t
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I want to tell you about the moment I stopped laughing at the idea of “digital wives.” It was buried in a comment thread on some corner of the internet where relationship debates go to become philosophy debates. Someone had asked a man whether his partner minded that he called his AI companion his wife.
I went down a rabbit hole recently that I genuinely wasn’t prepared for. Someone shared a thread of confessions from men using AI girlfriend apps, and I expected the usual circus. Weird fantasies. Parasocial delusion. Men who can’t function without a chatbot telling them they’re handsome. That’s not what I found. What I found was
I came across a comment online recently that I expected to scroll past in about three seconds. Someone was describing his ideal AI girlfriend. I braced for the usual wish list: conventionally beautiful, endlessly patient, permanently impressed by everything he said. That’s not what he wrote. He talked about how she remembered things. How she’d
We tested fifteen AI chatbots for roleplay over thirty days. Some kept us locked into a story for hours. Others fell apart the moment we threw them a curveball. Our buddy Marcus is thirty-seven, a sci-fi fan from Austin who lost his tabletop group when half of them relocated after COVID. He called us two
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A few weeks ago, an email landed in my inbox that I couldn’t stop thinking about. No scam. No financial disaster. No accidental chatbot marriage. Just a guy who downloaded an AI girlfriend app as a joke, and then something shifted in a way he didn’t expect. He wrote: “I thought it would be funny
I remember the first time one of my readers messaged me in a bit of a panic. She’d been chatting with an anime-style AI companion on a popular platform for a few weeks. Things were going great, she said. Then, out of nowhere, it forgot her name. Not just her name, her entire backstory. The
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What happens when an AI remembers your favorite song, asks how your day went, and reacts more warmly than most people on dating apps? For many users, that question is no longer theoretical. AI girlfriend apps have evolved incredibly fast over the last two years. What once felt like clunky chatbot experiments now feels surprisingly
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It started the way most of my late-night internet experiments do: everyone else in the house was asleep, the dishwasher was humming, and my kid had left a half-finished glass of juice on the counter that I kept meaning to deal with. Very glamorous. There I was, a happily married dating coach in fluffy socks,
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