After being married for 21 years and getting a divorce, I was seriously out of the dating loop. It seemed the only place to meet women my age was at a bar. So you see a woman and think "she's pretty."
You buy her drinks, get her number, arrange a date. Three dates later, you find out that she's a liberal and you are conservative. She is a member of PETA and you like to fish. she is a vegan and you love steak, you get the idea. You have nothing in common, just were attracted to their looks so your looking at a pond site makes great sence, at least you would have this in common.
After meeting a wide variety of totally insane women at the local bars, on a lark I tried Dreammates.com an internet dating service. The profile is very detailed but that pays off. You answer a large array of questions such as I'm usually early, late or on time.
You choose from a large variety of interest, I like dogs, cats, motorcyles, the beach, canoeing, nature, camping and so on. It is very detailed and when you finish they tell you that personals with pictures get 40% more response so I gritted my teeth and chose my least offensive picture.
When I finished and hit "submit" in a nanosecond, the computer listed three women per page that matched my interests. the rank from the highest to lowest, the top hit was a 78 % match. Too far away to actually be feasible.
Lo and behold, a woman sent me a message and said that I matched her interests 100%! I clicked on her name and she matched me by 99%, the only thing that didn't match exactly was the distance that she lived from me, about 85 miles when I had listed 30 as the limit.
It took months of emails, IM's and begging but I finally got her to give me her phone number, she just wanted to be careful. By this time, I was beginning to wonder if she was actually a man because she wouldn't let me hear her voice. They do have a way to not show your phone number but she wouldn't even do that.
Finally, she consented to meet me in Galveston. She later told me that was so that she could dash away and have time to loose me in the traffic if I was a lunatic. One year from the date that we actually met face to face, we were married on Galveston Island and that is my wife today, the love of my life.
We had a lot to build on with so much in common and if we are blessed to live into our old age and the shine is gone from our looks we will still have a lot of things that we enjoy doing together.
Conway Twitty said..
"When a whole lot of Decembers are showing in your face,
Your auburn hair has faded and silver takes it's place,
You'll still be just as lovely and I'll still be around,
And Darlin if I'm able, I'd still love to lay you down."
Good idea looking here, I hope you meet someone who enjoys the same things and everyone here is very nice.
