Topic : 07/13 Online Dating

I decided to try Match.com (as well as another site) on a whim to see how it works.  I waited to pay for a membership and then only bought a 3 month membership since I didn't want to commit myself for a huge time.  I can not recommend Match.com enough!  The "blind email" system helps to make sure you're comfortable with a person before giving out any "real" contact info and allows you to screen out the cheaters, only interested in "hooking up" and other assorted weirdos. 

My husband was not someone I would have considered at first because he is slightly younger than I am, but I liked his profile and decided to give him a chance.  We did email through match briefly before we moved on to phone calls ... and our first phone call went on for over 7 1/2 hours.  The second one went on for over 5 hours two days later.  He and I continued to talk on the phone exclusively for almost a month before we met in person.  As soon as we sat down I felt like I had "come home".  We continued to talk every night for at least 2 hours between our first and second dates ... and the second date started out as lunch and ended up going on all day. 

We became engaged in October of 2005 and got married in February and are now expecting our first son late in October.  I just want to let people know that because of Match I met my best friend, my partner and one heck of a great guy!  And he feels the same way about me.  If it hadn't been for Match we would never have known the other was out there. 

Sounds like you could use some of Dr. Phil's questions to filter them out earlier in the process so you don't have to ever face them (if you do).  A guy who cannot relate to you the way you need to be related to is probably not the guy for you. 

Tom 

 I met my husband online. I was against the whole thing at one time and thought i should try it before I go and not like it. I met him and talked with him awhile and we met. We are totally opposites but they attract! We have been together for 2 years and was just recently married! All you have to do is give it time. You can think just because so many ppl are doing it, it will work for you. You have to have patients and are open to the possiblity that you may find some not so good ones. Just keep your chin up!  

I just heard a 32 woman say her greatest fear was that she would be dating for the rest of her life.  Never give up!  I am 50 and have been married since Oct. 22. 2005.  This is the first (and only) time I have been married.  If it can happen for me, it can happen for you.  And believe me, I have dated some real "winners", but my husband is the most loving caring man I have ever known.  In case you want to know, I met him at church.  He 4-wheels with my Pastor.  Please feel free to use this note.  

Mrs. M.  

I've been doing the on-line dating for the past two yeas. How do you know when to give up. Can true connection be made on line I'm beginning to doubt it. In was I'm very stingy I don't pay to email men or to read their mail is that one thing I'm doing wrong? I'm a single mother and can't afford to pay to meet a man when I can barley pay the bills. On-line dating is in a way inconvenient I could go to a bar and meet hundreds of men and only pay a $3.00 cover charge but I'm truly don't care to meet men at the bar. Please who has advise what is one thing I could change is it my pictures my heading, or possibly I'm just to picky.  

                                                   Tina  

                                                    Hope Mills, NC 

       When I started to date on-line I didn't have the best  of  luck.  What I learned from the  experience was what kind of man I wanted in my life. I became picky which was not a bad thing because I learned I need to value myself and what I want for me is important.  

    I met Dominic actually in a chatroom in August of 2003.  We started talking on the phone and  I couldn't hang up the phone. We both came from a single parent home, had same values and believes. The more we got to know each other we had more in common then I thought. I have a wonderful man in my life. I am so blessed to have a man like him. Today is July 13, 2006, Dominic and I got married on June 24,2006. Three weeks tomorrow. Whoo hoo! Would I marry him again? In a heart beat.  I believe that  there is someone  out there for everyone.  

    My advice to everyone is to value yourself and have faith.  

 Mr.s Nancy Duprey