I turned to internet sites when I started dating again; it's hard to meet someone my age....there was no one at work to date (and it's always a bad idea to date someone you work with, anyway), I don't go to bars, I don't go to church, I don't go to sporting events and nobody was fixing me up with anyone (terrible idea....I gave up on fixing people up after a couple of disasters).
I did try a senior site, but it seemed that most of the guys there were looking for younger women and *that* I'm not. I used eHarmony (what a waste of money THAT was.....they kept matching me with guys who had joined for a free weekend months ago and never came back to the site) and Match.com.
I wasn't having any luck meeting Mr. Right, but I did meet his black-sheep cousins, Mr. Sleezy, Mr. Cheap, Mr. Depressed, Mr. Bankrupt, Mr. Still-Married-But-His-Wife-Doesn't-Understand-Him, Mr. Bitter, Mr. Looking-for-a-Nurse, Mr. Looking-for-a-Purse, Mr. Looking-for-a-Nurse-AND-a Purse, and Mr. Weird-as-Hell, to name a few. I thought at that point, I'd try meeting some widowed fellows who, like me, had had good marriages and might be receptive to another long-term relationship. Three-strikes-and-you're-out there, too. I met one guy for breakfast and asked how long his wife had been gone; he said it will be three weeks on Thursday......skeeved me out majorly... Went out with another widower several times until I realized he was not going to get over the feeling that he was "cheating" on his late wife. Another guy had a 15-year-old daughter who called him eight times on our first date and seven times on the second date. He said she was very unhappy that he was dating and I realized that I wasn't interested in taking on a sulky adolescent.....been there, done that, not going there again.
Somebody suggested Plentyoffish.com. It was free, so I registered. It didn't take long to see that it was mostly a "hook-up" site and geared to a much younger crowd, but miracle of miracles, here was this guy, right age, retired, had his own house, solvent and financially responsible, looking for a permanent relationship and wanted to travel all over the country in an RV. Ding-ding-ding!!! It was LIKE at first sight, turned into love, and almost 5 1/2 years later, here we are.
So, in my case, dating sites DO work. You just have to kiss a lot of frogs first before you find your prince.