The Gaggle

How the Guys You Know Will Help You Find the Love You Want

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AMBIGUOUS TEXTS.

SUDDEN BLOWOFFS.

CONFUSING HOOKUPS.

MIXED SIGNALS.

THIS DOESN’T HAVE TO BE YOUR LOVE LIFE.

IN THIS GROUNDBREAKING DEBUT, based on nationwide interviews with women and men, Jessica Massa leads you through today’s post-dating world, where the rules of sex, dating, and relationships have completely changed. The Gaggle is the ultimate guide to finding love in the modern age.

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Simon & Schuster |
288 pages |
ISBN 9781451657531 |
February 2013

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Praise

“Jess Massa and [Gaggle co-creator] Rebecca Wiegand are…poster girls for modern-day dating.”

– Entertainment Weekly on The Gaggle

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“Jess Massa and [Gaggle co-creator] Rebecca Wiegand are…poster girls for modern-day dating.”

– Entertainment Weekly on The Gaggle
“Dating sucks. We all agree, it’s a job interview. It’s the worst thing ever…That’s why the gaggle is important…Guys are equally confused by the dating process, if not more…I think it’s wonderful.”

– Patrick Meagher, Cocktails with Patrick, Cosmo Radio on The Gaggle
“Every woman needs a gaggle of guys to fill different roles in her life. I do believe that! Yes, I do!”

– Lara Spencer, Good Afternoon America on The Gaggle

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SO HERE’S MY FIRST QUESTION . . .

How would you define your romantic status right now?

• “Single. Incredibly, unbelievably single.”

• “Ha! Well, it’s sort of up in the air.”

• “Gray . . . ?”

• “In a relationship for—well, two months later we asked each other, ‘So when would you say that we started dating?’ And we were like, ‘Oh, New Year’s Eve, when we got wasted and made out.’”

• “It’s really complicated. How much time do you... see more

DATING 101: A CRASH COURSE

I broke up with my last boyfriend to embark on this single journey, and I had absolutely no clue what I was getting myself into. I was like, “I’m going to find myself and become an independent woman and focus on me,” and it’s just turned into this big clusterfuck.

I thought it was going to be so much better! I thought it was going to be so much fun and I was going to be getting asked out on dates like every night, and eventually I would find a guy who I could date for a while—like on Sex and the City, all Carrie Bradshaw. And it’s just NOT.... see more

R.I.P. DATING

I think that the times are changing where you MUST “go out.” I used to ask girls on dates. I would be like, let’s get alone, let’s talk. Not to get in your pants, ultimately, but to get to know each other.

But now I think that’s inappropriate. There are a bunch of girls who I would just love to cut to the chase with and go on a date, but I just don’t think it’s done anymore.

What’s done instead? Fucked if I know!

—Bryan, 30, carpenter, New Orleans

Remember all the conventional wisdom that we just went over?... see more