Single senior looks for alternatives to Internet matching
I am just coming out of an eight-year relationship with a man I met through an internet dating site.
Back then, all of my friends (and therapist) were aggressively urging me toward internet dating. I said I would try it for a month. Before the month was up, I met "Don."
Although the "plus" of this experience was meeting Don, I felt the rest of it was awful.
I met a number of "single" men who were married. I met a number of "50 and 60" year olds who were actually in their 70s or 80s.
I found the majority of the men were weird and had issues -- and all of them expected sex on the first or second date. I didn't find it enjoyable in the least.
Now that I am single again, everyone is urging me once again to go back on the internet.
I cannot bring myself to go back on a dating site. And yet I do not want to be single for the rest of my life.
Amy, how do I handle my insistent friends? Am I the weird one by not embracing internet dating?
-- Reluctant internet Dater
Dear Reluctant: Let's review: You participated in an internet matching site. Before you'd even emerged from the standard introductory one-month free trial, you had managed to meet "Don," and embarked on an eight-year relationship with him.
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