The Hidden Psychology Behind Modern Online Dating

Outside his house, she picked up her phone again and opened G8KeyPR.

It wasn’t that she didn’t dare try.

She had done that before, but it wasn’t her thing.

At least not on the lame attempts that had been offered to her.

At the same time, this was a date that required more than one meeting if it was going to yield anything.

But it could also awaken something in her that she had been dormant.

The app had hit the mark again.

It was a part of her that it had discovered, even though she knew she had never written about it openly.

The app’s ability to map her was actually more frightening than the experiment itself.

It would be deleted immediately when this was over.

The question was whether she should do this.

She pondered on the way home but something inside her had woken up.

This experiment made her come alive.

Instead of casually dating guys based on their looks, this was about meeting herself.

Challenging herself.

When she reached home, she decided that she would do this, but she wanted Joachim close.

He didn’t need to know why, but she had the emergency button.

She just had to reach for it.

She sat on the bed and looked at the app.

Then she clicked OK and let the algorithm answer for her.

All according to the experiment.

Pretty soon an answer appeared, and she read it several times.

She didn’t feel comfortable with this.

The question was whether she should drop out.

This time the location was central in town, which was good, and she didn’t have to go anywhere if she didn’t want to.

She had wanted it to be over the next day so she could get rid of it, but he understood that that was exactly what she wanted, so he let her wait for three days.

During those three days, she didn’t meet anyone.

Instead, she prepared herself and tried to digest the experiment as such.

Kevin had contacted her, but she didn’t respond other than to say that she was busy right now.

None of her dates knew about the experiment.

Joachim wondered how she was and if the date had gone through, but she said it would take a while, and she promised to contact her as soon as she was ready for the next part of the experiment.

She suffered these days, and it was certainly as planned.

Several times she thought about canceling.

But then the day came, and she got ready to meet him.

She read the instructions she had received carefully and when she was sure of everything, she went to the place he had indicated.

She hoped that this would be the most unpleasant date to go on.

Nikki stepped into the room and there he sat.

He hadn’t lied in his movie.

When she met his gaze, she felt just as small as he had said she would and to be Nikki van der Hoebooken, it was a huge feat that he managed.

And now something began that she would not be able to control…

Some people are not looking for attention. They are looking for something real.