Maren Morris Says She Feels Like a ‘Toddler’ at Dating After Divorce, Believes Men Know How to ‘Cosplay Intimacy So Well’

In an interview with ‘The Cut,’ she also called out the “fake liberal men” who pose as “progressive dudes” on dating apps

Maren Morris in Beverly Hills in March 2025.Credit : Steve Granitz/FilmMagic

Maren Morris is getting used to dating again.

In an interview with The Cut published on Friday, May 9, the country star opened up about the challenges she’s found in dating following her divorce from ex-husband Ryan Hurd.

Morris, 35, revealed that she joined the dating app Raya, where she swipes through men and women when she’s not working.

“I feel like a toddler at dating, all knock-kneed,” she told the publication.

Maren Morris in Santa Monica in February 2025.Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty

Morris also called out the “new mutant strain of fake liberal men … who pose as progressive dudes on dating apps.”

However, she’s since learned certain dating red flags from TikTok like “maladaptive daydreaming, limerence, and avoidant attachment” from Gen Z.

Still, Morris said she someone she was seeing introduced her to his friends and he “completely imploded.”

“I’m kind of realizing, with men especially, that they know how to cosplay intimacy so well,” said the “Carry Me Through” singer.

Elsewhere in the interview, Morris opened up about why her new album Dreamsicle, which dropped Friday, May 9, isn’t a divorce album.

“It’s actually, to me, what happens after divorce,” she told the outlet. “I’m not documenting what happened during the relationship; I’m documenting the grief, anger, and sadness that follows, and the vulnerability of putting yourself back out there again … of reconnecting with your female friends and yourself.”

In 2013, Morris met Hurd, 38, while writing “Last Turn Home” for Tim McGraw. However, their romance didn’t blossom until a few years later.

The former couple married in March 2018 and welcomed their 5-year-old son, Hayes, in March 2020.

The “Cry in the Car” artist filed for divorce in October 2023, and the exes reached a settlement agreement three months later. In January 2024, they finalized their divorce.

“There [are] so many emotions when you have a child with somebody and the relationship doesn’t pan out,” Morris told PEOPLE in an August 2024 interview. “I feel like Ryan and I have done a really great job at just being great parents for him.”