--- title: Aziz Ansari on Love in the Age of Like description: Human beings have never had as many romantic options as they do now. Will that doom love or save it? canonical: https://time.com/3908641/aziz-ansari-on-love-in-the-age-of-like/ author: Aziz Ansari article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-04T10:48:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T07:54:22.438Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Aziz Ansari on Love in the Age of Like og:description: Human beings have never had as many romantic options as they do now. Will that doom love or save it? og:url: https://time.com/3908641/aziz-ansari-on-love-in-the-age-of-like/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31afc5ec9d8d79ae/698852488e0601af81460ba8/150615056633.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Ansari_Aziz_TIME_051615_89555_F.JPG og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Aziz Ansari on Love in the Age of Like twitter:description: Human beings have never had as many romantic options as they do now. Will that doom love or save it? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31afc5ec9d8d79ae/698852488e0601af81460ba8/150615056633.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Aziz Ansari on Love in the Age of Like by [Aziz Ansari](https://time.com/author/aziz-ansari/) ## Aziz Ansari Jun 4, 2015 10:48 AM UTC  Martin Schoeller for TIME by [Aziz Ansari](https://time.com/author/aziz-ansari/) ## Aziz Ansari Jun 4, 2015 10:48 AM UTC MY PARENTS HAD AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE. This always fascinated me. I am perpetually indecisive about even the most mundane things, and I couldn’t imagine navigating such a huge life decision so quickly. I asked my dad about this experience, and here’s how he described it: he told his parents he was ready to get married, so his family arranged meetings with three neighboring families. The first girl, he said, was “a little too tall,” and the second girl was “a little too short.” Then he met my mom. He quickly deduced that she was the appropriate height (finally!), and they talked for about 30 minutes… [**Read the full story here.**](http://time.com/aziz-ansari-modern-romance/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3908641/aziz-ansari-on-love-in-the-age-of-like/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3908641/aziz-ansari-on-love-in-the-age-of-like/"},"headline":"Aziz Ansari on Love in the Age of Like","datePublished":"2015-06-04T10:48:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T07:54:22.438Z","description":"Human beings have never had as many romantic options as they do now. Will that doom love or save it?","url":"https://time.com/3908641/aziz-ansari-on-love-in-the-age-of-like/","keywords":["aziz ansari"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31afc5ec9d8d79ae/698852488e0601af81460ba8/150615056633.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Aziz Ansari","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/aziz-ansari/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31afc5ec9d8d79ae/698852488e0601af81460ba8/150615056633.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Ansari_Aziz_TIME_051615_89555_F.JPG","caption":"Ansari_Aziz_TIME_051615_89555_F.JPG","creditText":"Martin Schoeller for TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3908641/aziz-ansari-on-love-in-the-age-of-like/","name":"Aziz Ansari on Love in the Age of Like"}}]}] ```