The price of love online is getting expensive.

You were looking to join a dating app the other day and realized that the premium price was ridiculous.

When you looked up a few other dating apps, you came to the same conclusion.

Too expensive.

In your mind, no one should have to pay these premium prices for love.

The commercialization of love is at a new low.

These dating apps don’t care about love.

No, they care about raking in the cash and exploiting lonely people in search of love online.

To you, the commercialization of love has ruined the concept of finding love online.

The dating apps are out to rake in the cash and the people who pay these ridiculous premium prices believe that having to pay such prices equates to receiving the idealistic match.

For many, that match must be absolute perfection.

With these prices they are paying, they expect to meet someone who meets the definition of what they have dreamt about in a partner.

The woman who has paid this ridiculous premium price is expecting the dating app to match her with men who are over 6 feet tall, with a six figure yearly income, a lavish home in the suburbs and an advanced academic degree.

The man who has paid this ridiculous premium price is expecting the dating app to match him with women who are as beautiful as movie actresses, slim as runway supermodels and as freakish in the bedroom as their favorite adult film actress.

Each gender has such lofty and unrealistic expectations of the person they want to be matched with, they forget their own real life dating history.

This is a history where they have never dated anyone that comes close to what they are expecting to be matched with and yet, thanks to the ridiculous premium price they are paying on a dating app, they develop a distorted sense of reality.

It is no wonder that you have your doubts about joining these dating apps.

You are an ordinary guy looking for an ordinary woman, and you aren’t asking for the world.

With your feet firmly planted on the ground, you haven’t developed a warped idea of who you want to attract.

There has been a history of dating ordinary women in your life and you aren’t looking to upgrade to a supermodel on a dating app.

But the commercialization of love online has left you with a supremely bitter taste in your mouth.

Where you were once curious about the prospect of love online, now that you have been deluged with these ridiculous premium prices, you have lost a ton of that curiosity.

It’s not like you can’t afford it.

But why?

Why pay such premium prices for love online to further propagate the mentality that commercializing love online and creating unhealthy expectations in those who pay these prices is alright?

Before you lay judgment on dating apps for their greedy, capitalistic tendencies, don’t forget that love comes at a price no matter how it comes about.

Seeking out people in real life to date comes at a cost too.

That outfit you purchased to go out on Friday night to a social venue like a nightclub or bar cost money.

The cologne you put on to smell good cost money.

The rideshare you booked to get to the venue cost money.

The ticket stub you received to gain entry into the venue cost money.

The drinks you purchased at the venue cost money.

When you add up the cost of all it took to make a Friday night out happen, don’t be surprised when the cost surpasses that of the cost for a monthlong subscription to a dating app.

A monthlong subscription that gives you access to a lot more dating options than one Friday night out ever can.

As for people’s expectations on these dating apps, not every one of them is seeking perfection in a potential partner.

They pay a premium price with the primary intention of attracting people who are serious about a seeking out a long-term partner.

Those who aren’t serious rarely sacrifice their hard-earned money.