Love Is Blind works. That is exactly the problem.
The pods are the part with research behind them.
Dating and relationship advice
The Bloom blog.
Writing from Bloom on intentional dating, lasting relationships, and how we are building a dating app that grows with you.
35 posts, page 2 of 3
August 2026
6 of 9 posts
Americans did not stop wanting partners. They stopped believing the search works.
The romance recession is the story of the moment.
Relationship growth science
Your attachment style is not a personality type
The internet turned attachment into four boxes and a quiz you take once.
Dating and relationship advice
Machine learning cannot predict chemistry. The same method predicts relationship quality.
Researchers collected more than 100 traits and preferences from every participant before anyone met, then asked a machine learning model who would want whom.
Intentional dating
Technoference: what the research says a phone does to a relationship
Researchers have a name for the phone coming out mid-sentence, and a decade of studies on what it does to couples.
The lifecycle journey
The 36 questions: what the study actually asks you to do
A list of 36 questions has been passed around for a decade as a formula for falling in love.
Dating and relationship advice
July 2026
6 of 8 posts
What the first study on the ick actually found
A total, sudden turn-off over something trivial finally has research behind it.
Dating and relationship advice
What makes a relationship last? The research is clearer than you think
One of the largest analyses of couples ever run and the longest study of adult life ever conducted point at the same answer, and it is not chemistry or compatibility.
Relationship growth science
The introduction is back: what the matchmaking revival says about dating apps
Young daters are leaving the apps and paying real money for an old technology, the human introduction.
Intentional dating
Is Bloom Dating legit? An honest answer from the founder
If you searched this, you are doing exactly what you should do before handing a dating app your email address.
Founder/mission
Engagement metrics vs. relationship outcomes: where dating tech goes next
Dating apps have spent a decade optimizing for time on the app.
Aligned monetization
Why a feed of strangers makes you feel like inventory
That flat, picked-over feeling you get from swiping is not in your head.
Intentional dating
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