My initial contact with my amazing and beautiful wife cam about due to a website called Metro Date and is by far the best relationship I have ever had. I am curious to see how many others here have had success (or failure) in the online dating realm?
I wrote this a couple of weeks ago in the "How did you meet your best friend" thread. I think it is just what the OP in this thread is looking for. Sorry it is a little long, but describing the best thing to ever walk into my life can not be stated in one or two sentences. This is what I wrote: I was talking briefly with a girl on E Harmony for a couple weeks and decided to meet for lunch. We met at Chili's at 1:00 PM on a Saturday. She stepped out of her car and I immediately began to drool. She was proud of her "power" (A Spanish term) and displayed them well. I could not take my eyes off of her. We went in and ordered a couple of salads and talked and talked for about three hours. I still could not take my eyes of this Puerto Rican beauty. I tried to hold her hand a couple of times but she coyly resisted so as to not look "easy" perhaps. When we left Chili's I told her I did not want the date to end and her eyes lit up and suggested we go to the Green Iguana over on the beach. We dropped of her car at her apt and went to our second destination in my car. It was all I could do to not stare at those gorgeous legs and the short ass skirt with the split up the side that seemed to go all the way to Toledo. We had ordered drinks and after what seemed like a few minutes, the band took a break and the lead singer came over to our table. He said we never once looked at the band all afternoon but instead we just kept looking into each others eyes. Now if the lead singer of the band noticed this and made an effort to come and tell us this, well, it must have been true. He wished he could find someone that would do the same with him. Sometime into the bands second set, she allowed me to hold her hand on the table! I still had a hard time not staring at the "power" coming from her obvious choice of tops to display her "girls" (I am drooling now). Walking to the car I put my arm around her waist and held her tight enough for her to know that I was never going to let go. That slit on her skirt some how seemed more revealing than before. I was in heaven driving back to her apt. After we parked at the apt complex, she started digging for her keys but could not find them! I know she had them when she parked her car. I told her I wanted to walk to her car and check if she may had left them in the ignition or something. When I got closer to her car Inoticed it was running with the A/C still on, radio going and doors unlocked! Obviously when she parked she was just as smitten with me as I was with her. Her kisses were the BEST I have ever felt and tasted in my life. I chose not to go upstairs to her place but the following Friday we went to the most romantic classiest restaurant where I asked for the banquette where I snuggled close and played footsie (and more) with her legs. We went back to her place and did what people in love do best. Five months later we were married on the beach here in Anna Maria Island at sunset on a gorgeous March evening. This Puerto Rican beauty was my best friend on the day we met and to this day I can not wait to come home and be with her, ten years later. I have never experienced such a closeness with this best friend so unlike others. This is how I met my best friend.
It appears to me to be by and large a meat market...but then again so is the bar scene. There is a smartphone app called "Tinder" that is popular with the under 30 set, that literally is a meat market. A photo is all a potential "suitor" is judged upon...so within a few seconds it is determined whether a person is worth contacting and getting to know...carnally or otherwise. With the quick scroll, a person is dismissed or approved...as I say within a few seconds. Obviously, if one has the genetic gifts to make it past the first few seconds and have someone interested, they are going to have a better chance at "dating." I find most of the on-line dating apps or websites as reprehensibly shallow, with little to no redeeming aspects. It can be reduced to sexual oppurtunists and little else. The cyber equivalent to a Red Light District wherein the women display their "wares" in windows while the males pick and choose solely based on the best cuts of "meat." I'm sure the same applies to the males displaying their "wares" to the females and/or other males if that floats your boat. Human behavior at it's most unseemly.... but I digress.
I actually met my long time girlfriend on one of those websites. I was doing the standard "send a message to every woman on the website" flood thing because I was bored. I figured somebody would eventually say hi back. Now as most of you know those websites are populated with thousands of "bots" and fake profiles of models and whatnot who always talk to you. I of course got many replies from those types and one of them happened to be a real person. She is a very beautiful woman who actually looks like those fake model profiles. I didn't respond back because I thought she was a fake profile. Few days later she sent me another message asking if I wanted to talk. Again I ignored it because I figured she was a bot. She kept trying to talk to me so I eventually just said screw it and replied "Look leave me alone there is no way you are a real person and if you were a real person there is no way a super model is on a website full of guys". She thanked me for my "kind words" and said "well I am a real person if you would like to talk then here is my number". Id fallen for that one before so I said screw it and ignored it again. One day while intoxicated I decided to call the number because it seemed like a good idea at the drunken time. We chatted for awhile and the entire time in my head Im thinking yeah yeah whatever you aren't that smokin hot chick in the picture but Im drunk and bored so Ill talk to you. She lived about 30 mins away and asked if I would like to come over and visit. Me being drunk I said sure why not. So the next morning I got up and went to her house expecting to meet an extremely unattractive lady or likely a man. An older lady opened the door who kind of looked like the picture. So in my head I said ok that's her but she took those pics about 30 years ago, the eyes were the same color. She greeted me warmly and gave me a hug and invited me to come in. After chatting for about 5 mins or so she says "So I'm assuming you are here to meet my daughter". Wait what? Daughter? She takes me downstairs and sitting on the couch is that "hot supermodel chick" from the "fake profile". She was a real person. The reason I thought her mother was her 30 years ago in the pics was because well...its her mother, they look the same. Now 5 years later her and I have a very funny story of "how we met" to share whenever people ask. So word of advice. If you keep getting flooded with those fake profiles of supermodel looking woman try responding back to one. 99.9% of the time they are fake. But maybe, just maybe, they might be a real person who actually does live in your small town who is attracted to "you" for some crazy reason. I'm sure glad I decided to respond. BTW im not THAT shallow, she is a beautiful person both inside and out. But her looks are what caught my eye at first honestly.
Tried it once. That was enough for me. She gave me a suggestion, get contacts and a vasectomy. LOL I did go and get contacts where I met my beautiful and much smarter GF.
