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Here are some recent pieces on love, relationships, dating expectations, and more on Valentine’s Day from us and our partners.

• what the golden bachelor gets right about older adult dating by Lauren Harris on ABC’s The Golden Bachelor and older adult dating.
• Roses are Red, Violets are Blue: Online Dating May Have a Gendered View by Nicole Schmitgen on a recent study by Lauren Harris on dating sites and older adults.
• Love Behind Bars by Isabel Arriagada writes up how people who are incarcerated and their loved ones face challenges within their relationships.
• National Spouses Day is Next Week…. Feeling Any Pressure? A Fact Sheet on Prospects for Marriage in Contemporary America by Daniel Carlson and Stephanie Coontz have some great statistics to refer to at Valentine’s Day Dinner tonight.
• Visual Soc: Mining Love by Isabel Arriagada and Jillian LaBranche explains some of the complexities of increased diamond sales during this time of year.
• Celebrating Valentine’s Day in Japan by Gwen Sharp explores the reversed gendered expectations in Japan (I pointed this out to my partner).
• Hoping for a Valentine’s Day date? Stop waiting to be asked! by Shannon Cavanagh covers some research on initiating contact of potential suitors.
• Gender, Bodies, and the Valentine’s Day Script by Isabel Arriagada and Allison Nobles on media-fueled expectations of how a Valentine’s Day should go down.
• Happy Valentine’s Day, Sociology Lovers! by Lisa Wade compiles posts from Valentine’s Day past.

Happy Valentine’s Day to all our new and old readers from TSP!