Banned from Online Dating

 
  

On Saturday I was sitting with my friend watching TV and within the 15 minutes we saw four different commercials for online dating sites. My friend, I am going to call her Poo (because that’s my nickname for her) asked me why I haven’t tried any of them. I previously wrote about my search for a significant other in   Where is He part I &  Part II. At that time I felt like I was the only girl in the world without a man. I tired of being solo so I went to a place I thought I would never go; the world of online dating. I am not one to keep secrets so I had to confess. In the last year I have tried five different sites for online dating. All of them were a fail.

The sites I tried

Plenty of fish- Full of gross men looking for a good time….I lasted three hours before I got rid of the account.
Okcupid- No problems but nothing came out of it
Match.com- I made one really awesome friend from this one and a few other dates.
Christian café- Met this awesome guy and I learned a lot about myself through that friendship.
All these attempts made me realize that I was 1. Not ready for a relationship 2. I was starting to be a little desperate

Back to the story

The last commercial we saw was for Christian Mingle which happened to be one of the sites I hadn’t tried. Poo then suggested that I should give it a try and I agreed. I was curious to see if this site really was full of “Christian men”. I also have to admit that part of me was thinking maybe something good could come out of it. Despite the fact that I already promised myself I would focus on other things, I made a profile. My first day on the site I got an email from someone. I looked over his profile and he seemed like a nice guy but I held off emailing him back. After two days of thinking about it I decided I would give him a chance and send a response email. I went to log into my account and like a goober I forgot my password. Long story short I was locked out and the site admin told me that the only way to unlock my account was for me to send copies of two forms of ID …..UH, I THINK NOT.

 The moral of the story

When a door closes it is for a reason. I am again reassured that it is not my time. I am also now am convinced that I am not meant to meet my husband online. I thought about it and I am actually relieved because online dating for me has been tough. I rather take my chances meeting Mr. Right the old fashion ways: like a through a friend, randomly meeting at the mall/coffee shop/ church events/unknown place.