{"id":93041,"date":"2026-08-17T21:48:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T21:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93041"},"modified":"2026-08-17T21:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T21:48:31","slug":"is-dating-draining-your-bank-account-heres-a-cheap-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/17\/is-dating-draining-your-bank-account-heres-a-cheap-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Is dating draining your bank account? Here\u2019s a cheap solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA2ai6SF.img?w=768&h=614&m=6\" alt=\"\u2018You\u2019re better off enjoying the meal than worrying about the outcome.\u2019 Illustration: Fortunate Joaquin\/The Guardian\" width=\"569\" height=\"455\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A couple of months ago, I wrote a column\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/jun\/13\/loneliness-influencers-breakups\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">imploring young people<\/a> to keep trying to find love, to not become cynical about romance and avoid the temptation of the accursed \u201cloneliness influencers\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/lifestyle\/other\/is-dating-draining-your-bank-account-here-s-a-cheap-solution\/ar-AA2ailN5?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a837f89ee5a4238854cd8a429975b99&ei=85\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A couple of months ago, I wrote a column\u00a0imploring young people to keep trying to find love, to not become cynical about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-relationships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/relationship.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93042,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93041\/revisions\/93042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}