My Dating Year Wrapped 2024

love a good TikTok trend

If you’re not as deeply entrenched in TikTok as I am, let me introduce you to the dating year wrapped trend. It kicked off in 2022, when mostly cishetero women who date cishetero men created PowerPoint-style presentations recapping their dating lives over the past year. The good, the bad, and the cringy all got translated into stats and data points: think bar charts, pie graphs, the whole shebang.

Last year I hopped on the trend, but I did it my way, on Substack instead of TikTok. I also ditched the numbers (I have no idea how many matches or first dates I had in 2023), and instead, I shared my experiences and feelings to make you laugh, commiserate, or feel a little less alone in your dating journey.

How it started

2023 was… interesting. I made a few genuine connections, and for the first time in a while, I toyed with the idea of having a “proper” relationship with at least a couple of people I dated. Feelings were definitely involved, but I still ended the year single.

How it’s going

I could go many ways about this, but I will cut it short: I am no longer single. I started dating someone at the very beginning of 2024, and we’re now in a long-term, cohabiting relationship. So no, this isn’t as spicy or drama-filled as last year’s wrap-up because I only dated one person, who turned out to be my current partner.