Hi I'm Ewey Schue and I'm Julie Kraftchik.

We're active daters turn dating sociologists.

Here to dive into everything modern dating and relationships.

Welcome to the dateable, everyone.

We're doing a special episode with just Julie and I.

You'll hear only from us too because we have more than enough to talk about, just the two of us.

We certainly do and we were brainstorming topics the other day and the list did not fall short. I'll just say that. There's just so much that we want to get off our chess and really talk about because you know we've been doing this now for 18 seasons, not 18 years, but 8 years, you know, and we've learned a lot over that time.

We both started this when we were in our 30s. We're now in our 40s.

Julie barely entered this age bracket, but I'm well into my 40s now and I still remember when we first met there was something

about turning 30 oh yeah that freaks people out it's a major milestone and something about dating after 30 seems more difficult

for some reason or more people want to talk about it. It seems elusive. So we want to address exactly

this topic. Does dating get harder after you turn 30? I'm really glad we're going into this topic because I agree there's a lot of like

perceptions out there that you know you're supposed to kind of have your whole life

in order like you're supposed to have your career in order, supposed to have your love life, your finances, all the stuff, like 30 is that age, we keep hearing that, you know, you got to get your shit in order by 30, but where did that even come from? And like we were talking about the

perception that dating gets harder once you hit this milestone age. We're going to

dig into all of it and go through if we think that these, you know, perceptions out there hold any accuracy and in what ways they don't as well.

And when we talked about this topic, I was telling Julie, 30 seems so young to me.

Now at 43, if anybody talks about, oh, I'm meeting up with my friend so and so, they 30 of like wait that's a baby in my mind but I had to

rewind back to when I was 29 about to hit the 30 mark thinking how old I was and how behind I felt and how I wasn't

living the life that I had imagined myself living by 30.

I think 30 is that pivotal age too because until then everyone's kind of on the same

page give or take like you're with your friends you're just getting started in

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