Travel Boyfriends and the Art of Low-Stakes Dating

The unexpected benefits of dating people you'll probably never see again

In the last six months I’ve had two boyfriends.

One was a French Bad Bunny lookalike I met in a hostel in Berlin. The other was an American rock climber with a septum piercing and alarmingly sensitive nipples in Montenegro.

Neither relationship lasted longer than four days.

Oddly enough, they taught me more about dating than the previous decade combined.

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