She was familiar with Coffee Meets Bagel - and went on “what felt like a million dates” - but at a friend’s suggestion, she downloaded Dil Mil. Tatapudy then did what many 20-somethings would do: She turned to dating apps. “There’s no sort of natural understanding of things, right?”
“The issues that we had came down to … me having to explain a lot,” she said.
Eventually, the weight of their cultural gaps and the pressure of acting as a bridge between her partner and her parents, compounded by the natural ups and downs of a new relationship, were too much to bear.