Online Dating for Seniors...For or Against?

Internet Dating Sites, For or Against?

  • Have used them with success

    Votes: 7 13.5%

  • Have used them with negative results

    Votes: 9 17.3%

  • Never used them, but open to it

    Votes: 7 13.5%

  • Never used them and never will

    Votes: 21 40.4%

  • None of the above

    Votes: 8 15.4%
  • Total voters
    52
I'm not a trusting person to begin with so I would be very disappointed if someone lied to me from the gitgo. I really do not know anyone personally that have used these sites but I have read where people claim to be "in love" with online connections and I just don't understand that claim at all. This is before meeting or even speaking to someone on the phone. How can that be? I think some people can and do meet people online and move on to have a real relationship, but the odds are not favorable, IMO. While I'm not against them, it is doubtful I would ever use one.
 
I tried it but with limited success. However, my niece met her husband on an online site and they have been married for almost 10 years now. I'm fine with being single at this point in my life but who knows what the future will bring ? It just won't be the result of an online dating site !
 

When I was younger, before internet dating sites were out there, I joined a couple singles groups, and placed and answered some newspaper ads. Not sure I would answer or suggest answering Internet sites now. To many cons out there, and catfishers. ANd too many seniors especially can be taken advantage of
 
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If you are a confident person, then you don't/shouldn't
need help speaking to people and finding somebody that
you like and the feeling is mutual.

Mike.
 
As far as internet dating or dating of seniors, I'm the type who will see what's in it while taking all necessary precautions. Finding love at this time of COVID-19 will certainly be an unforgettable experience. Not all friendships turn into romantic relationships, but just knowing and interacting with a decent fellow can make life more interesting. I understand it isn't for everyone but I'd rather do it than regret later why I didn't take the chance.
 
Starting and maintaining a romantic relationship is too much trouble for me anymore. I am just starting to get my own life back and I've had enough grief for this lifetime. Relationships are for easygoing people with no emotional or psychological issues. Who wants to endlessly untangle someone else's knots. I don't.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I voted for None of the above. I'm not in the market for anyone. I believe we go through stages in our lives, which are more or less hormone driven. I don't think it's mere coincidence that we find a mate in our 20s. My hormones have been in storage at the bottom of closet somewhere for a long time now.
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fuzzy i still have use of my hormones i'm just too old and too fat and too tired to care anymore. besides, can't seem to find anyone that's right for me so rather than repeating disaster after disaster it's easier to sit and read a book. lol!
 
My husband and I were together for 28 years before he died. I always said if something happened to him, "I don't want another one"....in other words, I don't even want to be bothered dating again. I admit though, I wouldn't mind having a "friend without benefits". One of the best friends I had in my life was male and we were strictly platonic.
 
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i've had several just male friends with no benefits. but i find that after a while the call of the hormones is too much for them or once they realize i'm not gonna comply they hit the road. so i pretty much said the hell with it.
 
I voted None of the Above because my experience with online dating is still in progress. I have no pre-conceived notions of finding my KISA (knight in shining armor) whether online or IRL. It'll come if it's meant for me. The interaction with men who have lots of gray matter is much better, if not cheaper, than talking to a therapist.
 
I have been happily married for many years, and my husband and I met on an internet Christian website. He was in North Carolina, and I was in Idaho, and we both worked long hours, so finding time to communicate was sometimes difficult. However, the benefit to that was that we spent a long time, just writing back and forth to each other on email as we each had time, and by the time we actually met each other in person, we pretty much knew a lot about each other.

Back then, Yahoo Messenger had a live chat that people could use, although with a dial-up modem, it was slow and not very dependable.
We didn’t have time for that a whole lot, because I had to get up before 4am to chat before Bobby went to work, and I didn’t get home at night and back in my house until after 9pm, which was after 11 pm his time.

When something happened that I was going to change my job, I decided that this would be the only chance that either one of us would have to actually meet each other.
I flew out to meet Bobby, and stayed to get married.
He was a director for a small Christian Rescue Mission at that time, and I really enjoyed helping him out with that position.
 
My experiences ranged from very bad to very good. Thank goodness for the "very good", because we've been together for almost 11 years now.

It's not a lot different from asking "how do you like shopping at Aldi?" or "how is that Ford you bought working out?"
 

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