thoughts on online dating?

Had a past experience years ago. I was young (and desperate, though I didn't realise it then). Thoughts? Why do people do it? Is it a good way to find a companion? Can someone date online and build a good, long lasting relationship out of it?

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Carla1951 · 70-79, F

You ask Why. But we all feel the need to have someone. The one person who cannot see the faults. But instead the person. We or at least I feel the need to be needed more so than wanted. I believe a woman needs to feel she is special. I had this. It was mutual. And all my dreams were in front of me. I looked forward every day knowing how blessed I was to have this one incredible romance. He became my Sunshine in all my darkness. ... then came his stroke. He has forgotten so much of what we had, of how it all began.
Yes, dating online is a beginning. You first learn about each other and know deep down in this dark part of your soul, THIS is what I was born to become. And for a while we can look back. Reach out to seek this moment of thought just one more time. There will be sorrows, just know the love shines brighter than the pain of what you left behind.
I feel it is time for you to reach again for that 'Brass Ring' to see for yourself the greatest of all is to LOVE and to be Loved. Be tender. Make a promise, you will always be there even if your LOVE fades.

curiosi · 61-69, F

Some people make it work. I don't get it, but that's just me.

Zelllambert · 31-35, F

If you can't meet people normally it's the only way to get a chance of having a partner. Saying that it's definitely a harder method since you don't get to experience that instant attraction you'd get upon meeting and requires a lot more patience and determination.

SW-User

Definitely. In a way, I think it tests one's commitment and time management. If a person can get a partner from online dating, but at the same time, neglects other, more tangible aspects in their life (like work and family), then that person probably needs to work at getting a healthy balance.

Carla1951 · 70-79, F

@Zelllambert
It is a difficult task to make. But of my one online romance, there was so much Beauty. So much happy I couldn't hold it all in.
Because when you chat, before you meet, you are lighting the fire. You take the time to learn to feel to hope and most of all to DREAM.

Peaceful · F

For connection, it happens. Aren't all dating sites online? By the way, I have never been on a site like that. Why judge connection though, no matter what form?

wonkavite04 · 22-25, F

I met someone online in August I've now been dating for about four months, we didn't know we'd date, though, we met in an online card game and just started talking. INSTANT click, we could but just feel it from how easy it was to talk. We started video chatting days later, and since then we've been inseparable!

SW-User

Yes, but a word to the wise, try to put a healthy distance between yourself and the person. That did not happen with my own online relationship and when it ended, I looked back and realised that I had spent nearly all nights and days with a person from another continent, and so much time had been wasted. Please don't see this as an attack on your relationship, I'm just trying to give some advice from my own experience. Best wishes.

SW-User

I don't think so..

Sabrina01 · 36-40, F

Many people prentending to be something they're not, don't look like their picture and sometimes married 🙊

SW-User

I couldn't agree more.

coary987 · M

I met my bf online and have been with him for 2.1/2 years he is in England and I am in Scotland

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