techstepgenr8tion wrote:
calandale wrote:
The whole thing of meeting someone online
seems pretty unnatural. Basically, there probably
are NO matches for what I want. But, in person,
after having someone fall for me, I think that I
could convince.
Ditto. I have like 62 eharmony matches and I haven't contacted a one of them. Its not that I have any fear of them, more that I just see so much of the same plain-vanilla "This is the cute thing to write that everyone writes" that I can't even see the real personalities behind the masks; it bothers me too much.
I had that same experience. I tried eharmony for six months, and every girl's descriptions that they wrote all said the same things -- to the point where the girls were indistinguishable from each other. Sheesh... Almost every girl's profile was a long string of cliché phrases about the kind of person she is, and the kind of man she wants.
But, my standards are such that it would be unlikely for me to be satisfied with a girl I met through a dating site. I mean, there are some special ones on there, but as girls are asked out a lot more than guys (on average), I don't know why a girl who's got a lot going for her would
need to join a dating site -- they likely get asked out about once a week. Now, before I flamed, remember I said there are exceptions. I know, because I married one. I met my ex-wife on Yahoo Personals, back when they were free, and we were VERY compatible, indeed, but just too contentious together for it to work in the long run. So, I got a 2.5-year marriage from a Yahoo Personals ad. But it was VERY rocky/unstable.
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