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The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos · 2026-02-16 · 47 min · 8,841 words

How to Find "The One": The Science of Dating with Tim Molnar

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Pushkin. Admit it. At some point, you probably fantasized about meeting somebody that you really clicked with. And in that fantasy, things are really great. You're into them, they're into you, you get a little jolt of joy every time you see a text from their number.

Over time you start to think, huh, I might love this person. Or even, this is the human I'm going to spend the rest of my life with. But of course, There are some steps you need to go through before it gets to that point. Before that happens, I'm going to have to have a relationship at all before that's going to happen.

I'm going to have to go on a date, and before that's going to happen, I am going to have to get a date. This is Tim Malnar, a social scientist turned dating coach in Boulder, Colorado. Before Tim became an expert on the science of dating, he was pretty much the opposite. I had, I think, up until the age of 28, 29, never asked someone out.

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