When New York City-based comedian and content creator Hope Woodard, 27, decided to publicly share her decision to go without sex or dating for a full year, she had no idea that the endeavor she dubbed “boysober,” would go viral.
After years of unsuccessful attempts at finding love via dating apps, Woodard says that she knew something had to change, and during a visit to Tennessee to visit her ailing grandmother, she had a realization.
“My dating life was like really a mess,” she tells PEOPLE. “While I was hanging out with my grandma I was texting this guy who I was like obsessed with…but he didn’t care about me at all and he was just ghosting me all the time.”
Right there and then, Woodard decided to just take a total break from it all. “Surely, I can figure out how to find purpose in life outside of who …