Week one of online dating. After swapping emails with a bunch of guys I set up dates with two of them. Then the guy cancels on me the day of the date. His reason? He’s not ready to be dating after coming out of a long relationship.
Right away, I’m confronted with one of the thorniest issues of online dating—why do people do it?
My reasons:
1. This is what I’m doing to pass the time while I’m waiting to meet Mr. Right at a social function like normal people.
1.a. Also a good way to get laid in the interim.
2. The best friend caveat. I met one of my closest friends through online dating so there’s always the hope that maybe you just make a friend which is still helpful when you’re new in town.
2.a. Maybe your new friend has hot friends.
3. Force myself to broaden my dating horizons.
Other people’s reasons (as far as I can tell) seem to be to get married or at least get into a committed relationship. I blame you, people who actually married someone they met online. You are most likely a small minority yet you give hope to all these people that this is a possibility. Meanwhile ruining it for the rest of us who are felled by these expectations.
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