Maren Morris Gets Candid About How Dating Women Feels Different From Dating Men
In a refreshingly honest interview, Maren Morris opens up about navigating connection, chemistry, and confusion while dating.
Nearly a year after musician Maren Morris came out as bisexual, the singer is sharing insights into her dating life and what she’s discovered since stepping into this next chapter of herself.
On a recent episode of the U Up? podcast, Morris opened up about how dating women has been both exhilarating and, at times, emotionally perplexing.
“My experience has been really positive,” she shared. “But I also have a confusion sometimes because I can connect with a woman, any woman, within like two minutes, and we’ll be talking about our childhoods… Like, we will get into it so quickly. With a guy, that would take years to get into that trauma.”
But as Morris points out, that connection doesn’t always mean romantic sparks are flying.
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“I sometimes have the hard delineation of romance versus friendship, because women can connect so quickly and easily, which is a magical thing about us,” she said. “Because at the end of the day, I have enough friends. I think I’m good. I’m looking for something beyond that.”
After a public divorce from singer-songwriter Ryan Hurd in 2023, Morris’s openness about her identity and her dating life has felt like a reclamation. Speaking with Sophia Bush on her Work in Progress podcast last year, Morris explained why she chose to come out during Pride month 2024 in a low-key way.
“I was like, I’m just going to put it in like an Instagram caption, like on a tour photo, so like it could literally just look like, oh, here’s where we played last night,” she laughed. “Oh by the way, I’m this letter.”
She described her experience of coming as a casual unveiling of something that had always been true. “It didn’t really feel like coming out,” she said. “It just felt like, ‘Oh, and by the way, I’m kind of in the club too, so happy pride.’ It was the most free, fun, silly way to do it.”
But that doesn’t mean the journey has been without nerves. When recounting her first date with a woman, Morris admitted to feeling a bit thrown.
“I had never been on a date with a woman,” she said on U Up? “So, of course, I’m going to be like, ‘What the hell does this look like?’ But then it was so easy and ended up being like a three-hour hang.”
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Morris, a longtime LGBTQ+ ally, said she had known about her attraction to women since childhood, but it took time to understand where admiration ended and desire began.
“From [the] age of eight to now, it’s really hard sometimes for me to delineate my sexual attraction or just my like love of women,” she told Bush on Work in Progress.
It wasn’t until she collaborated with queer pop band MUNA on her song “Push Me Over”—a track imbued with sapphic undertones—that she realized she was finally ready to say it out loud. “I didn’t ever feel before I had the courage to say that, and it was something that I knew for decades,” she said.
Courage is something Morris appears to have in droves these days, and we applaud her for inviting audiences into her journey with such honesty and heart.
