Online Dating - Who did it work for? FIRST DATE TONIGHT

[gavinandallison]

Allison and Gavin - are a on line meeting couple

 

[RThomas]

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Losers? Online!? I can't believe it.

 

[WriterofWords]

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Losers? Online!? I can't believe it.

LOL Imagine that!

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

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Looser on line.

 

[redhen]

I met my hubby on Western Mass, singles hotline..
Got sick of meeting guys in the bar scene.

We started talking...then decided to meet in person, come to find out he lived right at the end of my road the whole time! Pretty neat...

And yep..one date, and we've been together everyday since then.. 7 years.

 

[Randy]

I've had mixed results.

I probably won't be trying it again any time soon.

 

[HHandbasket]

Farmer Lew and I met in a Yahoo chat room 9 years ago yesterday (02/24/2002--yes, I remember the exact date). It wasn't exactly online dating, just a place where people with similar interests were chatting & we were chatting about science fiction shows, authors, movies, etc.

We started out as friends, but it was only a few weeks before I found myself getting giddy when I'd see him log into Yahoo, or my palms would get all sweaty and I'd get all nervous and "butterflies" when I'd get a call and see on the caller ID that it was him. A few months later, he came out here from Louisiana & we met in person, rode a Greyhound bus for 2 whole days to get here! We took one look at each other and knew that was it. I haven't looked at another man since (well, I LOOK... I'm married, not DEAD LOL).

 

[Uzura]

I have met my partner on a datingsite online, 6 years ago. Never been apart since

 

[bburn]

Married my DH six years ago....met online at Yahoo.

Was not planning on ever going out with him, but he was persistent. I think sometimes it works and sometimes it does not. Just like meeting and dating someone the conventional way. It just gives you the opportunity to meet someone you would have never run across another way.

 

[halfwaynowhere]

online dating is the only dating i know... i don't have much of a social life, so if i'm not at work, i'm at home, and that doesn't leave much room for meeting people...

The biggest problems I've encountered with online dating is honesty... but i think its probably the same the "traditional" way... People try to present their best side, and try to hide their flaws. Trouble is, when you are in a relationship with someone, those flaws are going to surface, so its best to just be up front about them (not saying that everything needs to be revealed on the first date, but say, if you spent 9 months in jail for robbing a liquor store, it probably should come up before you've been in a relationship for 8 months).

I think first meetings should be low-key, low pressure. coffee or something simple, where you can just sit and talk and find out if its even worth dating the person. That way, if there's no spark, you don't feel like you've wasted an evening (and if he's paying, he doesn't have to shell out the bucks for dinner and a movie for nothing).

Its also good to talk to people on the phone before physically meeting. Helps weed out certain things... I tend to forget this step, and that's where it usually backfires. I'm more comfortable typing or texting than I am talking, but it really is important. Better than showing up for a date and finding out that he's mentally challenged, something that would have easily been figured out from a phone call, but not so much via typing or texting (especially since nobody ever seems to bother to spell properly these days, anyways).

One of these days I'm gonna write a book about my dating mishaps, lol. I'm just waiting for that happy ending first...