WaPo Writer: 'Trump’s Election Stole My Desire to Look for a Partner'

"I’ve lost the desire to attempt the courtship phase"

A writer at The Washington Post claims that Donald Trump's election to POTUS has made her want to resist dating. 

According to Stephanie Land, a single mother of two, she had been on the dating scene prior to Trump's election, and now wishes to call it off. She had six dates in August, and found herself in a new relationship with a charming fellow, but that couldn't go on, she says, because Trump took all her hope away.  

Once it was clear that Donald Trump would be president instead of Hillary Clinton, I felt sick to my stomach. I wanted to gather my children in bed with me and cling to them like we would if thunder and lightning were raging outside, with winds high enough that they power might go out. The world felt that precarious to me.

For the next few paragraphs, Land goes into a melodramatic lamentation about how she one time cried while carrying her daughter home from school, and how she feels poised to support her family in spite of Trump's victory.

I’ve lost the desire to attempt the courtship phase. The future is uncertain. I am not the optimistic person I was on the morning of Nov. 8, wearing a T-shirt with “Nasty Woman” written inside a red heart. It makes me want to cry thinking of that. Of seeing my oldest in the shirt I bought her in Washington, D.C., that says “Future President.”

There is no room for dating in this place of grief. Dating means hope. I’ve lost that hope in seeing the words “President-elect Trump.”

Cheer up, Stephanie, Trump is going to Make America Date Again.