Say you’re out on a date with someone new, and the person who sparklingly met all the usual pre-date prerequisites turns out to be… far from what you expected. What do you do? Enter eHarmony’s Bad Date Rescue app, which can be preprogrammed to call you with a ‘fake’ emergency, allowing you to believably excuse yourself while sparing the other person’s feelings.

Here’s how it works.

Introducing the divorce expo. It’s like a wedding expo — only instead of vendors selling wedding dresses and bouquets, life coaches, financial planners, family counselors, and even hairstylists are on hand to help “new divorcees field the brave, new life of singledom,” says Erica Ho at TIME.

Attendees can also get tips on dating and sex, which could be especially valuable “if you’ve been with the same person for five, 10, or 20 years,” says Cindy Perman at CNBC. “Your waistline is different now, your hairline is different, your dating pool is different — and dating is different.”

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12 dating sites for weirdly specific tastes: A slideshow

• Date British Guys offers Anglophile ladies the chance to find love with their “very own David Beckham, Hugh Grant, Orlando Bloom, Jude Law, Sean Connery, Prince Harry”… or at least some chap with an accent.

• “Love long & prosper” is the tagline at Trek Passions, a personals site for those who love Star Trek, Star Wars, and other science fiction. Those seeking “someone fun to attend a sci-fi convention with” should also apply.

• “Connect with singles who share your STD” is the slogan of STDmatch.net, a site geared toward those living with sexually transmitted illnesses. There might be plenty of demand: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in six Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 has genital herpes.

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