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The Online Dater is 45-year-old woman sharing accounts of her experience with online dating in New York City, 2012.
She is a graphic designer that loves her work and and her life in New York City. Someday she hopes to find a companion and maybe have a family with whom she can share her love and friendship.
Her motto: In the end, if everybody wins, I win. Even if we all would rather have skipped the journey.
Lisa–
Nice work! You definitely should keep going– and maybe solicit other people’s nightmare dates, get a community together. The more the merrier.
I look forward to more. And if you like, I’ll contribute a story or two.
Thanks for this.
M
Whoops– I probably shouldn’t have used your name.
Dear Online Dater–
If only more men on these dating sites would read your blog, maybe things might be different for both of us.
Nice work, girl!!
very witty, very truthful, very funny stuff. i look forward to reading more in the future!
Hi There,
I stumbled across your blog through blogsforwomen.com and it struck a chord and made me giggle- empathy giggles.
I am a 24 year old in Melbourne and I have posted about my own online dating horror stories here.
http://fully-fashioned.blogspot.com/2010/08/digital-love-affair-we-just-didnt-click.html
Keep ‘em coming,
FF xo
HA! I can relate to the “frivolity, freak-outs and f**k ups.”
Hey, very nice blog. I have thought about doing a date alert site just to warn women about certain men set up like Craigslist where you can click on a state and city and read all of the local dating stories about possible losers. I am too busy for that now and don’t want the focus of my life to be that. But you would be good at it. I love your blog and hope you will continue it because I will read it and add stories. I have an experience dating a man who pasted a forty year old pic and showed up a sixty year old. I was pissed but we did the dance for three years. Hard lesson. Can’t stand him anymore. Dated very few others online after this because the online dating world seems to be full of losers like this. Not worth it. You spend alot of energy on these people.
I understand your plight. I don’t want to make out all online daters to be losers. Its just that I have had so many dates that warrant comment – I thought I would blog about them. I am not fond of someone having to lie to get their foot in the door, but if there is something there – then maybe it was worth it. I just prefer people who are not ashamed of any part of themselves and put themselves out there to be found by the right person.