How Men Can Stop Dating From Feeling Broken in 2025 — and How to Navigate the Chaos.

Dating sucked for a lot of men in 2025. Let’s not bullshit. Swiping through endless profiles, fully knowing most of them will not match back online, or conjuring your cajones to drag you to a bar for in-person interactions, the modern dating scene for men can feel like a Twitter IRL, so many fucking unmet expectations, ghosting, being canceled out for vapid and superficial nonsense and frustration.

But here’s the good news, there’s a way through the mess, and it starts with you shifting your perspective, because perspective is simply the lens that turns chaos into clarity — shift it, and the view transforms.

We’ll be using Vroom’s Expectancy Theory, which basically explains that the effort you put in is driven by the expectation of a reward. So before your ass even continues reading. Look at your current and future efforts with realistic, fulfilling outcomes; you can make the dating process more enjoyable and effective in 2025.

Why Dating for Men Feels Like a “Cesspool”

Dating in 2025 could feel like an exercise in brutal futility.