An Online Dating Success Story
Who says online dating doesn’t work? I admit, I was one of the nay-sayers. In eight years of divorce, I tried some of the most popular online dating sites – match.com, yahoo personals, eharmony, chemistry.com, salon.com, nerve.com, everything but matchmaking by DNA. The experience left me jilted. I became wary of online dating expert advice sites that make money by encouraging you to give internet dating a try. As an experienced online dater I felt compelled to blog about my failures through a series of online dating confessions.
If I now admit I was wrong for saying that online dating is a complete waste of time, can you find it in your heart to forgive me? Because I finally have a success story.
eHarmony offered to give me $20 off on Southwest Airlines if I expanded my profile’s match distance setting to 120 miles. Twenty bucks for a profile change! How often does someone offer to give you that kind of free cash?
And what’s 120 miles to someone like me who lives in the Bay Area, within a one hour drive of perhaps 7 million people? I mean, if I can’t find love in a pool of 7 million, why wouldn’t I want to expand my search, increase my odds? After all, a two hour drive for a coffee date is nothing when Dr. Neil Clark Warren’s scientific approach says you have real relationship compatibility. Heck, with my discounted airline fee, I could up my matching distance to 1200 miles!
Free money. Now that’s online dating success!
- Be Wary of Dating Expert Advice Sites
- When Online Dating Doesn’t Work, Use Your DNA
- Online Dating Expectations
- Myers-Briggs Love Sexy Personality Type
- Great Books for Relationship and Divorce Advice
- Long Distance Dating for Single Parents
- My Drunk Date
- Do Divorced Dads Need to Have More Kids to Find Love?
- Funny Sexy Dating Stories
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Comment by Cara
| April 22nd, 2008
Just $20 off? They can do better than that surely?
lol
x
Cara
Comment by Kat Wilder
| April 22nd, 2008
Heck, I thought I could meet lots of smart, engaging, fit, psychologically aware, handsome, tall 40-something men within five miles of my home. I mean, how hard do I have to work?!?!?
But that $20 sure would buy me a latte or two …
Comment by whatmenthink
| April 22nd, 2008
I’m curious about online dating. I have definitely been a naysayer for a long time.
I wonder what it’s like for a 20-something year old. Not because its hard for me to meet women, but perhaps there is just a better way?
Comment by Lance
| April 22nd, 2008
I think online dating should be strictly for the post-college set. Seriously. If you’re in college, or right around there, use your social circle to meet potential mates or just do it the old fashioned way, by talking to complete strangers.
I’ve used online dating for years and the big problem is it atrophies your face-to-face social skills. PLUS, online daters are a very narrow set of folks, ie women who are looking to get married and older guys who are divorced and want to bang younger woman. No offense to David M, I think you’re the shizzy!
Comment by dadshouse
| April 22nd, 2008
Lance – no offense taken! I’m laughing my ass off right now. I think it’s great how to-the-point you can be! Love your blog. (and btw – I met my last girlfriend and booty call partner at a friend’s party, not online… )
Comment by Betsy Shaw
| April 22nd, 2008
Just wanted to stop in and say, “thank you” for coming by over at Momformation and offering your very clever insight. I think you are on to something there. Hold that thought. Thanks again.
Comment by Single Girl
| May 24th, 2008
Eharmony and their FREE Communication Weekend…what a joke. I had been on there the last Free weekend and their server was so slow it couldn’t take the amount of singles trying to find love. So I couldn’t get any matches because their system failed. Now trying again. I thought I was ready but no, now they will not show ANY pictures for FREE like last time. I changed my setting for the FAST TRACK for the FREE weekend is for four days only. Now when I try to login in they say that for my own security they have logged me out. So now no access at all. Tried their tech support to report it however if you can’t log-in you can’t contact them. So glad I didn’t spend any money with them and will tell everyone I know not to use their services or lack there of. I know that dating services do work because my sister found her husband on Match.com and they lived in the same block so you never know stranger things have happened.