Matchless

Philaldelphia Magazine has a good article this month on being single and the dating scene. I was a little hesitant to read it having gone through it personally. I was pleasantly surprised at how she really nailed the whole Match.com experience at least from the female perspective. The endless (witless) emails, the stupid “winks,” the guys who seemed to get their jollies wasting girls’ time, the great dates that just never called back, trying to figure out how to sanely deal with the rejection…. It was especially nice how she ended the article without having found her soul mate. In fact, she found a guy she liked but he never called her back. That, my friends, is a lot more typical than the smiling couples they show on their commercials. It took me awhile but I did find somebody on Match.com. What kills me is I still haven’t gotten over the whole experience leading up to it. I mean, I think back to it and I still feel the rejection just as deeply now as I did then. It was truly pulverizing. Online dating is not for the weak, that’s for sure. I do hope the author finds love and she doesn’t have to go through torture to find it.

4 thoughts on “Matchless”

  1. Audra

    I think it’s that it’s concentrated. You date offline, you still have to deal with undesirables, unwanted advances, rejection, and guys not calling you back, but the instances are spread out more. You go on one of the internet dating sites, and you’re being hit on by many guys simultaneously, communicating with one after another, after another. It’s more overwhelming that way.

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  3. rosa

    I think the real secret to any dating is to not take it seriously. Never having been through the online thing might make me a poor judge but if you are confident in your self, you ignore the idiot fringe and look for the nice guy who is sincere and wants what you want.

  4. Donna Post author

    1. It’s a concentration of idiots. They can’t cut it in the real world and so they go online thinking maybe it’ll be different.

    2. I think the real secret to online dating is avoiding it.

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