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Online Dating Experience 23
The Bar is Better Than Online Dating
37 year old female from Texas
Ok I have done the online dating thing
on and off for about seven years. I have done it in California,
Washington D.C., Dallas and Nashville. It's the same
everywhere (except in Nashville where the men were much
more gentlemanly).
After my many experiences I have come
to basically the same conclusion about men you meet
on the net (or any forced singles situation for that
matter)
- they are cheap, they want sex as soon as possible,
they don't want to make an effort, and they don't want
to court you. The initial phone conversations always
start out good. You hit it off, they make you laugh,
you seem to want the same things out of life. You get
excited to meet them, especially because they are attractive,
successful and intelligent (well according to their
profile). You arrange a date to meet somewhere (I have
learned
the hard way never let them pick you up - if they are
absolutely heinous they will have to drive you home
as well and also they will know where you live). You
show
up and they actually are as attractive as their picture.
They pay for dinner and drinks (I'm sorry but I would
never put up with a man who expected me to pay - very
disrespectful - how did his mother raise him? Besides
he shouldn’t be asking you out to dinner if he's
not going to pay).
You agree to go out again but then
the fun starts. Suddenly he doesn't want to take you
out. He wants you to "come over so he can cook you
dinner" - which at first seems flattering (oh my
gosh he's actually going to cook for me) but what really
translates to is "I'm too cheap to take you out
anymore" (I also find this amusing since they just
happened to let it slide at dinner how much they make
so you know they're not broke") They also think
that even though they've made no conscious effort to
win you over they're entitled to grope you and have sex...
I find it hard to believe that couples get married
off the net. I would like to see those stats. By dating
online you take away: initial attraction, chemistry,
timing, and fate to name a few. Basically you're just
trying to force a connection, which never works. You're
better off going to a bar by yourself.
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