The TruLS Journal
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Why we built TruLS

For too long, finding like-minded people has meant paying to scroll past bots, sellers and empty profiles. We believed the lifestyle community deserved better. So we built it.

The TruLS team3 min read

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Ask anyone in the lifestyle how they've tried to meet like-minded people online, and you'll hear the same story. A new site. A membership fee. Then hours of scrolling through profiles that are too far away, long abandoned, or not who they claim to be. A few genuine connections, buried under fake accounts, automated messages and people who are only there to sell something.

We lived that story for years. We talked, for just as long, about what a better place would look like. TruLS is the answer to that conversation.

A broken model

Most platforms in this space were built on a simple idea: charge first, and keep people searching. The longer you scroll, the better it works for the platform. It rarely works for you.

Nobody in the lifestyle wants more profiles. They want the right ones: real people, nearby, looking for the same things. We set out to build a place designed around that, from the first screen to the last.

“The lifestyle has never been only about sex. It's about being among open-minded, generous, genuinely fun people who understand you.”

What we believe

Real people come first

Selling and spam have no place on TruLS. Any member can report a profile, photo, message or post in seconds, and every report goes directly to our team. We will always choose steady growth with real members over fast growth with empty numbers.

Your time matters

Every member and couple shares what they're looking for and, just as importantly, what they're not. Those preferences work in both directions, so the people you see are people who could genuinely be a fit. Matches start close to home, at a distance you choose, and each one tells you why it was suggested.

Community is the point

A match is only the beginning. What keeps people in the lifestyle is everything around it: the friendships, the parties, the long conversations that run past midnight. TruLS is built for all of it, with a feed from the people around you, groups, events, club pages and live chat rooms.

Everyone belongs

Couples and singles. Throuples and quads. Straight, bi, gay, trans and nonbinary members. Newcomers with their first questions and veterans of the scene. Every person and every kind of relationship deserves to be represented, and represented well.

Inside TruLS today

  • Matches for you: members and couples near you who fit what you're looking for, with the reason on every card.
  • Members near you: browse at the distance you choose. Distances are measured between cities, never exact locations.
  • Events and club pages: parties, meet & greets and club nights in your area, and the venues that host them.
  • Groups and live chat rooms: conversations around shared interests, and a room full of people when you want to talk right now.
  • Lifestyle quizzes: light, honest quizzes to take alone or with your partner, then compare notes.

Growing with intention

TruLS is opening region by region rather than everywhere at once. It's a deliberate choice. A community only comes alive when there are real people to meet nearby, so every new area opens with members who can actually connect. If your state isn't open yet, join the waitlist and we'll let you know the moment it is.

Membership is free, for adults 18 and over.

Built together

TruLS will keep evolving, and the people who use it will shape where it goes next. If there's something you'd love to see, or something we could do better, we want to hear it at support@truls.app.

We built TruLS because we wanted a place that felt like home for people like us. We hope it becomes that for you. Welcome in.

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Meet people who get it

TruLS is a private community for couples and singles in the lifestyle: meet people near you, find parties and club nights, join groups and chat live. Free to join, for adults 18+. We're opening area by area, so if your state isn't open yet you can join the waitlist.

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