please share your dating experiences on the internet?
July 29th, 2010
Sally asked:
have any of you found good relationships through internet dating? which sites did you use? i have only dated men that i met in real life and they all seem to have been losers. i am divorcing my husband who was a porn addict and liar and mama’s boy. i want to try internet dating but want to know if it really works. and how does it work – you chat online?
Sillanpää
have any of you found good relationships through internet dating? which sites did you use? i have only dated men that i met in real life and they all seem to have been losers. i am divorcing my husband who was a porn addict and liar and mama’s boy. i want to try internet dating but want to know if it really works. and how does it work – you chat online?
Sillanpää
Janne
I actually met a really great guy here, on answers. Yeeeeep.
Castro
I hope you’ll be careful on the net.
good luck.
Rantala
i have tried all e harmony, Asian people meet,true, you name them i tried them. you will find a mess of people from ghana and nigeria trying to get money. the safest site i found was a church site. i tried it the people was honest and sincere. i have met a woman from the philippines. i flew there met her and i am engaged to marry her. we talk one hour in the morning and 1 hour in the evening m-f sat and sun we talk for hours on in if you do this get a web cam. this way you will know for sure who you are talking with.make sure they have one. if they say i do not have money can you buy me one drop him they are scammers
Eeva
It just depends. My mother and step-father met on the internet, and they’re happily married for over 10 years now.
Narjus
I work full time, go to school part time, and have little money because I help my mom and sister and I am trying to save so I don’t get out much. I also don’t prefer to get the reputation of a barfly after the horror stories my ex-boyfriend (who I met through a mutual friend) told me regarding all the skanky women he met there. No thank you!
With that being said: I think that internet dating has become the modern version of bar dating because let’s face it, a bar is just as dangerous as the internet and there are plenty of skanky women on the internet too. NOW, I have met three men on the internet (no, I am not ugly, no I am not fat, no, I am not stupid, etc etc etc oh and no, I’m not a whore). All three I met on…brace yourself…Craigslist. (Two of them PRE Craigslist killer; one of them POST Craigslist killer.)
The first guy was so sweet and such a gentleman but we didn’t have enough in common to make it work. It was a mutual agreement that never ventured into a relationship. (I met him July 08)
The second guy was an old fashioned southern gentleman and for the most part he was….other than his obsession with sex and pornography. Those are no nos with me. We did not work out. We are still acquaintances. (I met him February 09)
Guy three is the soldier who I love. He is like my other half and I’ve never felt like that about someone before. He is EVERYTHING I could dream of in a man (for the most part). He is just….I am so in love and he’s in boot camp right now and my heart is certainly growing fonder. I don’t want to jinx anything but hopefully he’s the one I grow old with
My advice would be to post the ad yourself instead of responding to men’s ads. If it’s a site such as Craigslist, demand something uniform be put in the subject line. I am a HUGE Alabama fan and to ensure that whoever was replying to my ad was real and local, I requested that Roll Tide be put in the subject line and I deleted any e-mail that did not follow this request. I also deleted any e-mail with frequent mispellings, deleted any e-mail that sounded like it came from a hoodrat, deleted any e-mail that was immature, inappropriate, or attempted to lead me to another e-mail. I ended up with 2 legitimate responses (my boyfriend and some other guy.)
My boyfriend and I wrote e-mails back and forth and exchanged numbers. He called me first and we probably talked for about a month. I told my family about him (namely my mom-and I’m 24…I don’t care if I’m 102; my mom will be the first to know anything.) On our first date, I told her where he was picking me up, where we were going, what time, and I never had a bad feeling about him at all. Come to find out he works for an acquaintance of my mom’s so it’s not like he completely evaded my social circle. Namely: trust your gut.
Filatov
Use plentyoffish.com.
Meet the guy in a public place – the sooner the better.
Don’t give him ur last name, hometown, where you work or phone number.
And don’t have sex until you’re in a commited relationship for 6months or more.
Other than those rules – it’s a lot of fun!!
Ketterer
I tried Love and Seek. It worked but I didn’t take the chance to recover from my previous marriage. I guess I started too quick to find someone. I think I found someone in my hometown. If this doesn’t work, then I will try Christian Mingles.com. I truly believe that any Christian dating service will have a better chance to succeed than a regular dating service. Go to Christian dating sites.com and you shall have plenty of them. Whichever you choose, I wish you the best.
Paananen
I’ve tried a few sites: Plenty of Fish (POF), Date Hookup (DH), and a few others. I primarily use POF and DH. If I had to choose one site and recommend it, I would pick Plenty of Fish. Why? Because…
1. I have met several wonderful guys on POF.
2. It’s free!!
3. It’s very easy to use.
4. It has a great search base.
5. It’s fun to use.
I have met about 15 or 16 men on that site, with four of them resulting in relationships (two of them that lasted one month each, one that lasted two months, and one that’s still going strong after one month). I must warn you though, when you first start your profile, you might want to set up your restrictions (i.e., if you don’t want someone that smokes, drinks, does drugs. Or if you only want to talk to someone that wants a long term relationship, dating, friendship, activity partner, etc. You can even choose how many miles that this person must be from you). If you don’t, you might end up with a lot of guys trying to talk to you that you don’t necessarily want to talk to. Usually, when a guy would message me, we would talk for a while through the site’s messaging system. After I felt comfortable enough, I gave him my cell phone number, that way we could text and talk to each other. After that I would find a PUBLIC place with a high concentration of people to go meet the guy.
If you do decide to try Date Hookup, you might not be as satisfied. I met two guys on there, and most of the guys that tried to talk to me where huge jerks. I heard that a lot of guys on there tried to scam people as well. It’s worth a shot though.
Well, I hope this helped!! Best wishes!!
Haanpää
hey dear yes..
there are a lot of good dating site, but you need to select the reliable one where you can find a good and reliable dating partner.
these sites are
match.com
plentyoffish.com
ocupied.com