Posted on 10/22/2011 11:00:44 AM PDT by libh8er
Maybe dating sites only work for people who's notion of the world is very simple, and all black-and-white.
Or those who are willing to fudge the truth so as to fit it with the allotted choice.
My wife and I met on Match.com. We had both recently been widowed. We celebrate our 9th Anniversary in January.
Agreed, the last thing I want to do is stand around in a bar and hope I can strike up a conversation with someone, only to find out they are a freak and we have nothing in common... match.com baby... met my SO there over a year ago, and we are quite pleased :)
“Online dating ain’t nuthin’ compared to how dysfunctional kids are without their supposedly-critical toys.”
It’s going to be a sad day for them when the satellites are disabled and their virtual world collapses.
I am amazed at how unanimous the response is. I think a lot it has to do with the attitude of the people on dating sites. Since FReepers are of a conservative mindset and tend to look for, consciously or subconsciously, people of substance and of a similar mindset, OLD works for them. But I will say a lot, even a good majority perhaps, are not like us. They are superficial, as are their wants and needs, and they roam in the wilderness of OLD for years.
I like your post. Makes me think I will make a point of making sure my kids know the “good families” that would possibly be compatible with ours. Maybe something will come of it, maybe not. But at least they’ll recognize good marriage prospects when they see them.
The bedrock of liberty is the freedom to pimp yourself. And now we haz the toolz. :^)
After my 18-year marriage collapsed four years ago, I have been in two sequential relationships with women I met on Match.com. The one I’m with now I met that way a year ago, and I have never been as happy with a woman as I am with her. I’m hoping this one lasts forever. (Looking good).
I met my wife of 14 years on-line.
Our relationship on line resembled our grandfathers and grand mother’s relationship. We fell in love through conversation and common interests.
Then we met and got married.
I met my husband on FreeRepublic. Online courtship worked so well for us. Modern relationships are too tied up in hormonal attraction, not life comparability. I think online dating offers potential for making sure the important stuff is in common before “falling in love”
Congratulations to both of you. And welcome your wife to America for me....I know she has been here awhile but I was unable to welcome her before.
It seems today, everyone is afraid to be alone...must have phone contact or IM all the time...Its amazing how many women are on the phone in the grocery store...I use to go shopping to be alone for a while....had 5 kids and shopping was a quiet pleasure..
I met my Filipina wife through her cousin, who was living here, but had to date her online for a year before I went to the Philippines to meet her in person. We got mearried in 2005. When I was there, we went to Tagaytay. I liked it so much, I did not want to come back here. The weather is nice up there.
The women I see out there are on the phone all the time.
In the car while driving. Walking in to wherever they’re going. While they’re shopping. In the checkout lane.
Why is what they are talking about SO critical that they have to be in constant communication? That life falls apart if they’re not able to have a phonecall about the most mundane little thing?
Emergencies or special instances I can see. These people aren’t having these kinds of conversations. I hear them, it’s nothing important.
It wouldn’t bother me if these people weren’t distracted in their immediate physical world where they can run over/into others, not pay attention to where they’re going (like the gal walking into the mall wishing well), etc. Their inattentiveness can become a hazard for the rest of us.
I was shopping at Krogers one day and the guy down the aisle was taking to himself while pushing the cart...didn’t know if I should leave the aisle or not, but when I got closer, he had an ear phone and was talking to someone...I had to stop him and tell him Thank God your on that new type of phone, I thought you were nuts...he busted out laughing....Just had this white thing in his ear, not a regular phone...Never saw one before...
That’s funny! Especially if he was really talking loudly.
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