Looks like my last Internet dating service match has collapsed

[Bok_Tukalo]

After several different attempts to meet someone I could connect with ended up just being nice people to go out with, I quit using the services and now the last relationship (and I use that in the broadest possible sense) I cultivated seems to have petered out.

Back to square one.

[KG]

1. relationships are over-rated.

self love is where it's at.... :)

[Taverner]

2. Democraticsingles.net

If I were single I'd be there in a heartbeat

[Longgrain]

3. I'm already there...

no hits yet tho...:-(

[Bok_Tukalo]

4. I'm thinking re-group and re-form

Spend some time getting all my shit in one bag and maybe try again in a year or so.

[crispini]

5. I have given up on dating services.

Although they did sort of work for me, I met one boyfriend and a lotta nice guys that way, but I dunno, it's just .... something ... I am now concentrating on materializing the right person by sending my prayerful petitions to the Goddess and/or the Universe. :P

[Bok_Tukalo]

6. Seems as good a course of action as any.

"concentrating on materializing the right person by sending my prayerful petitions to the Goddess and/or the Universe"


The benefit of Internet dating services, as I've said to others before, is that it gets you out and with the opposite sex (or same sex, I suppose, depending on your bent). Beyond that, I haven't come across any real connection.

I still maintain that meeting someone that you can bond with is a random event and you cannot force a random event.

[crispini]

7. I'm beginning to think you're right.

I suppose that getting out and dating a lot of people might increase your chances somewhat of said random event. :shrug:

[Bok_Tukalo]

8. I keep hearing about speed dating

But that seems like a compressed version of the regular Internet dating scene.

[crispini]

9. I did it once.

It was kind of fun. You really need to pump yourself up for it, you know, "I'm just going to go out and meet these 10 people and have fun and if something happens, great, and if it doesn't, then I had a fun evening out."

I'd advise a few drinks, and take a friend so you can laugh about the whole thing afterwards. The last time I went there was this one guy who treated the whole thing like a job interview. He actually WROTE DOWN EVERY SINGLE ONE of my answers. And kept nodding or shaking his head. To things like, "Do you smoke?" "Do you have any pets?" etc. He really made me feel like he had this mental list in his head and he was grading me. It was totally funny, especially because the moment I sat down I was like, "Uh, THIS ain't gonna happen" and expect his demeanor made every other woman in the place think the same thing. :evilgrin: