OR WITHOUT WOMEN –
April 9, 2025 – Hope deleted all her dating apps and made a promise to herself: No more dates for a year. Then, armed with a catchy new term coined by her sister, Hope started documenting her “boy sober” journey to her half a million TikTok followers.
The caption for the first video, which she shared in November 2023, read: “Should we start a CULT.” In a later video, Hope laid out the rules of going boy sober, among them “no dating apps, no dates, no exes, no situationships,” and “no hugs and kisses—etcetera.”
The term quickly took off, and soon enough others were boarding the boy sober train. Among them is Carly Galluzo, a 28-year-old also from New York, who went boy sober in 2024 citing similar behaviors to Hope as the reasons for her decision. She’d fall for someone quickly, find herself totally consumed with thinking about them, and then become bitterly disappointed when they didn’t live up to her expectations.
