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Is Social Media Impacting our Relationships?

TikTok is a cesspit for bizarrely therapised language. It’s often the creators who lack any actual counselling psychology credentials who concoct these terms in a very unscientific lab.

When I started diving into the "high value husband vs low effort boyfriend" trending videos - because I love masochism or something - an immediate sense of doom pervaded me. No wonder nobody feels like they have the energy to date anymore. It’s like Squid Game for us OG yearners.

Speaking to Dr Aoife Drury, a Dublin-based Psychosexual and Relationship Therapist, about the impact of viewing relationships of others on social media (whether they be celebrities, influencers or people you know IRL), it’s clear that the internet is fuelling a lot of the difficulties of modern dating.