Dating can be a grueling and unforgiving undertaking if you don’t take the time to laugh about it every now and then. After all — if swiping on Tinder, and enduring awkward coffee dates, and decoding cryptic text messages isn’t hilarious in some sort of existential sense, then what is??

Operating under that assumption, here are some delightful Tumblr posts about the absurdities of dating and romance. You can laugh at them while you’re waiting for that frustrating certain someone to text you back.

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