was told two horrendous tales: the woman who went on a date with a friend she’d known for over ten years only for the night to end with him having a threesome with two girls he’d met at the bar, for example.

We had actually gone to the same international school in Japan—just at different times—so we spent the whole time talking about living in Japan and the people we had in common.“The pain was so bad it felt like I was being stabbed with a bunch of tiny forks. But maybe a couple of Facebook pics and some liberal right-swiping is all you need to find your future wife—after all, a University of Chicago study found that more than a third of marriages start online, and that online couples have longer, happier marriages.On his profile he expressed interest in the Oxford comma, which I thought was delightfully nerdy.I know a lot of guys say stuff like that, so I wrote to him and informed him that some people call it the Harvard comma, and isn’t it a bit un-American to refer to it otherwise.