Everything about Daisy Testa’s first date indicated there would be a second. The pair lingered over dinner and drinks for hours, took a walk in the park, and even kissed on a swing set. "We both are ...

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Dating in 2025 has given rise to a new heartbreak tactic: the “slow fade,” a gradual withdrawal of communication and enthusiasm that ends a relationship without a definitive break. Rather than ...

No one likes being rejected—unless, of course, it’s some kind of kink…in which case, more power to you. But that one-two punch to the gut is only made legitimately worse when the person you’re dating ...

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At xoJane, Victoria Carter has mounted a campaign against the slow fade, a defining phenomenon of romance in the age of the text. Here’s how it works: You go out with someone anywhere from once to a ...

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Some time ago, I met Kathleen Widdoes at a writers’ conference in Prague. Most people who recognize the name at all know Widdoes from her role on As the World Turns, but she is a classically trained ...

London-based producer Daniel Avery has announced the follow up to his 2013 debut album, Drone Logic, with the release of a new EP called Slow Fade, which is streaming today. You can hear the title ...

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