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Please give me your honest answers here...do you believe that meeting someone online versus the traditional way (thru work,friends,etc) is taken as a sign of desperation and used as last resort... Thanks
Yes. It was the only way I could meet a man. Darn fool married me too...talk about desperate!
Oh, for Pete's sake, Urban, take a look at your first post.
Have YOU ever began a relationship online? My wager is no. If I'm wrong in that, it wouldn't be the first time, but I like to call them as I see them. What I saw in your post is the ramblings of someone who *thinks* they know, but are not quite there. And, THAT'S what I was responding to.
Why else would you have asked me "how I knew this guy was special"? Your inquiries, to me, scream that they are from someone who hasn't done this personally. And, that's all good. Frankly, I don't give two hoots how someone finds love. But, I'd like to think that someone who has strong beliefs on this particular issue would actually have some real life experience to back it up.
You'd be very, very wrong regarding having begun relationships that way. MORE than one, with one of them extremely pertinent.
Whether you call them like you see them or not it's clear to me you weren't paying attention to what was said, merely going the haughty route of "those who KNOW", which clearly left you putting words in my mouth.
I fail to see how ANYthing I said smacked of inexperience. I take virtually no umbrage in people who question the things I say, or challenge them. Where I get irritated is when people seem to be challenging me on points I haven't even made or hinted at.
Let's drop it. You think I'm some idiot talking out his arse and I think you can't read terribly well.
No way. Both my boss (a well respected lawyer) and my sister found their partners online. The thought of going out and standing around a bar for hours is not very pleasant, sometimes it's just easier with a laptop from the comfort of your own home!
And it's not just dating... I have met a lot of great friends online.
My bf thinks this is a little odd, always teasing me and asking me which one of my "not real, internet friends" I am going out with this time, but I think he just needs to get up with the times.
Men who like to sleep with 62 new contacts and you .
Serial killers.
Seperated men who sleep in same room with wife .
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Now of course we could switch it up and change most of those with the female persuasion too...
Also true of meeting partners in real life too, unless you're lucky enough to meet one thru a trusted contact, but if that was easy, internet dating wouldn't be necessary. Or has anyone here gone on a blind date with someone that a friend said was perfect for them, only to be extremely insulted when you met the date? NM, my parents met that way. Still.
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Aren�t there any women out there who actually want to spend the rest of their lives with someone? Girls always say they want commitment, but then they say no when I propose. On our second date, I expect to have our children�s names picked out. If you can�t handle that, then don�t respond. I�m a REAL man and I want a REAL woman who still believes that REAL love is possible!
I have an extra ticket to see John Mayer, and I don�t have anyone to go with me. More accurately, I�m lonely and I can�t get laid, so I bought an extra ticket so that some freeloading b*tch will be my date just to see a free concert. At least let me get to second base; the tickets cost me $65!
I�m just some dried-up old creep who will probably make your skin crawl when you touch me, but I work at Dell and I have enough money to woo some pathetic University of Texas co-ed into giving me a h*** job every now and then in exchange for a new wardrobe from Urban Outfitters. Shoot me a pic and your PayPal account number.
Desperate? What a silly word. Desperate people are those who hit up on the closest available warm body, not those who sign up for a dating site and browse thru profiles in the comfort of their own home. Honestly, it's the way the world works now. For instance, I just got back from a week of volunteering--a time honored way to meet people--and every man, attractive or not, was either married or younger than 22. Many of these men are my closest friends and I won't say I'm not tempted at times, but I really have no desire to start something with a married man and/or his son, lol. If I were desperate, I would.
I spent seven years volunteering at the humane society. Most of the other volunteers were women. The few men were usually there volunteering with their wives. The other males were usually high schoolers who needed community service hours to graduate. LOL
I'm not certain whether you're disagreeing with me or not. However, I'd argue that people DO "date" online before ever meeting one another.
What is meeting, vs what is dating?
I dare say if you evaluate those two terms you'll discover they coincide nicely with everything I've said thus far.
I haven't even remotely suggested that people who meet this way are desperate, nor that this method is any more unsuccessful OR successful than the traditional method; I've simply pointed out differences.
Meeting someone, to me, means to literally meet in person, face-to-face for the first time. "Dating" means carrying out a predetermined plan to spend time with someone, romantically. By my definition, there is no such thing as "dating online". People do communicate online, obviously, but I don't consider that to be dating - by any stretch of the imagination. That was the point that I was trying to make.
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Darn fool married me too...talk about desperate! 
