I am FED up with personals!

I really don't want to come across as negative here, but I am so sick of internet dating!

I am looking for someone special. I have been divorced (NO KIDS!) and single for a year now, and after s bit of dating, I am ready for someone steady to share my time with. Enter: personals!

This internet dating this is such a hassle though! Or is it just me? I find myself drawn to craigslist, looking at the m4w section, looking at all the ads, browsing by age, pic only, you name it, but no matter what ads come up, the result is still the same. I have to decide to send an email. I have to be clever enough in my response to be chosen from among the others who have also emailed this “great guy”.

Then I get to wait for a reply. They waiting isn’t really so bad. It’s email, once it’s sent, it’s forgotten. When I do get a reply I then must decided how I will respond again! Are we going to exchange pics? Are we going to meet? Will he like my pics? Ugh. Then when we FINALLY meet we have to start all over from the beginning, as if we’d just met that person at the bar!

There’s always the option of me posting a personal myself. That’s even worse! I take my time trying to write something clever and witty that will stand out from all the other ads, and then have to wait for responses. Most of them are short one liners that do NOTHING to make me want to reply, others are just the generic blurb that the lazy ones post into every email response, several are so riddled with grammatical errors that it’s all I can do to not email them berating them for not paying attention in 2nd grade!

The few worthy replies that I do get I have to take the time and energy to decide how to respond. At this point you can just go reread paragraph 4, because it’s the same process.

There MUST be a better way!!!