Single senior looks for alternatives to Internet matching
Yes, you also interacted with many men who were not acceptable to you. But the internet's unbeatable asset is in the great and wide database offered to people who are looking for a match. It also requires that you more or less embrace the process, even if you don't particularly enjoy it.
There are many more matching sites available now than there were eight years ago, when you had your awful (but successful) experience. If you want to interact with the largest circle of people to see if there is a match for you, then online is the best way to do that.
If you can't handle "insistent friends" with a simple "thanks, but no thanks," then you are definitely not equipped to dive back into the internet matching pool, anyway.
If you continue to feel this way, you could ask each of your insistent friends to fix you up with someone in their "real-life" circle.
Dear Amy: I'm an 18-year-old girl. I live at home.
My parents dictate, and have to know everything I do: where I go, who I'm with, why I'm going.
They will give me a curfew. If I'm one minute late because of traffic, they get upset and threaten to ground me.
They control my phone, too -- who I call, text and email.
Amy, I'm 18. They have controlled my life for 18 years! I want more freedom and responsibilities. I want to be able to go out and if I want to make an extra stop, to do it without them on my back.
I know they love me, but I'm tired of being their little baby.
...continued
