[DoughtyOne]

This has nothing to do with boredom and everything to do with the massive cost of eating out.

If you go to a decent place, order for two, drinks, tips, taxes, you don’t leave without spending $75 to $125 dollars.

Try adding up the cost of dating someone these days. It’s downright prohibitive.

[Blue Jays]

You are completely correct, DoughtyOne.
I have spoken with men and women friends and work colleagues with a $1000+ per month dating habit.
These are good, decent, and honorable people who go on many dates because they (paradoxically) do not wish to go on lots of dates.
I am glad to have a fantastic partner...contemporary dating would be brutal and expensive at this time!

[Buckeye McFrog]

This has nothing to do with boredom and everything to do with the massive cost of eating out. If you go to a decent place, order for two, drinks, tips, taxes, you don’t leave without spending $75 to $125 dollars. Try adding up the cost of dating someone these days. It’s downright prohibitive.

If they're not down for the BOGO coupon special at Bob's Big Boy, I'm probably not their guy anyhow.

[KC_Conspirator]

I agree on that point. Dinner dates are for people on their way to being a couple. You have the cost right (at least in my area, DC) about right.