DW Community Catch-up Thread
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I met my current guy on Tinder. My brother found his wife on Okcupid. My roommate found her boyfriend on Match. At the height of my dating, I had 4 apps (Tinder, Luxy, Hinge, and Happn). I liked the format of Hinge; that one connects you through facebook friends of friends.
My sister tried coffee meets bagel, but didn’t really connect with anyone. This was maybe 6 months ago, and it seemed like the community is still in its early stages?
Side note: For me, to make online dating less overwhelming, I would remove my photos, and only have a small little blurb about myself. Anyone I was interested in, I would send a message and include my photo. I used POF and met my current bf via that site. With OKC, I wasn’t able to attach a photo to my message. That was quite a while ago, so maybe you are able to now.
Anywho, been dating my boyfriend for almost 2 years, and we have a date with my 3 youngest cousins tonight : 7, 6, and 3 years old. We are taking them to dinner and the toy store. We have all been looking forward to this for a week or so now! It’s going to be so cute!!
@Kicia, I have Tinder, Coffee Meets Bagel and OK Cupid. Tinder is fun and there are guys who are looking for relationships but it might be harder to prune out. You can sort of tell from their profile. Coffee Meets Bagel at first gave me some possible matches but for the past month it’s hasn’t been good. That may be because the network is not big enough yet here. OK Cupid is standard. Granted, I haven’t had success in any of them so I might not be the best judge. My sister met her husband off Plenty of Fish five years ago.
As for photo, that would be necessary for Tinder. A good quality photo with a DSLR camera might let your attractiveness come through even though you think you aren’t photogenic.
Chiming in with sundress and wedge! I do feel uncomfortable sitting on bar stools in a dress since I’m afraid of flashing everyone, ha. But that outfit sounds really nice for a summer day date.
@Kicia I have okcupid and Tinder. Okcupid is where I met my partner, and he met his other partner on Tinder. I haven’t ever tried match.com or any of the paid sites.
I have talked to some really cute guys on Tinder, but nothing has panned out so far. I was supposed to have a date last night with a guy I was pretty excited about, but he cancelled last minute (saying he might need a rain check) and did not propose any alternate days we could get together, which bums me out. However, I am meeting up with another guy on Sunday for a picnic dinner, so that should be fun.
Still, every time someone flakes out on me I get more discouraged and just want to give up entirely and go live in a cave.
I’ve never done it @StoneGypsy, but I get the feeling that online dating is weeding out the twits for the gold. Count yourself lucky the guy didn’t waste any of your time and frees you up to meet someone awesome. But it still sucks, sorry.
Well maybe he’ll get back in touch, maybe he really had a good reason? Or maybe he thinks he’s blown it, you could always send him a message saying something cheeky about the raincheck?
Yeah, he said his water heater went out and took the AC with it (I don’t know a lot about that sort of thing. Does that make any sense at all?). I said okay and asked if he wanted to get together Saturday afternoon if he was free. No response yet. Not going to reach out again and I’ll probably delete the text thread at the end of today if he doesn’t reply.
I’m just feeling discouraged at the moment and feeling a little bit sorry for myself because all of my dates have either been really ‘meh’ or crazy or flaked out entirely.
Aw, I’m sorry to hear that StoneGypsy. Maybe he does need to sort out his schedule for a raincheck (k that does not make it sound any better). Your Sunday picnic dates sounds really sweet though.
ETA: Read your response above, hmm that seems a bit too technical to make up? but why would he need to raincheck unless he’s getting repairs done? Well still fingers crossed that he can do tomorrow.
Such is the dating world, I kind of look at it like this: There are MILLIONS of people out there and you’re only going to click with about 0.00001% of them. So you’ve got to trawl through the masses until you find one that’s a fit! I’m sure it is frustrating but you’re awesome and you’ll meet someone worthy of you if you just keep going, I bet you a million bucks.
Okay, bonne weekend DWers!
Sorry stone. That sucks! I agree with you and wouldn’t contact him again, unless he reached out. I’m think this picnic date is amazing!
