I've learned some painful lessons through online dating since trying it for the first time last year. My conclusions about two I've tried but made little or no headway on two different occasions each - I'll just call them Bottom of the Fish Barrel and Divorced Mingle - were both wastes of time. A third I'm still a paid member of until July (Match.com) has yielded me five scam contacts (three from Ghana, one Nigeria and one Canada) the African ones young men pretending to be impossibly lovestruck women for a loser like me.
I sought out one woman's profile Match suggested to me earlier this month whom I'm still e-mailing daily, but I cannot figure her out entirely yet. Her profile claimed residency in Saint Albans, West Virginia (about 60 miles from where I live - which is the main reason I made first contact) and to be a 5' 10" (I prefer taller over shorter women these days) 29-year-old (not quite robbing the cradle at a 15-year age difference but some would disagree). As reality tunred out, and I suspected foreign origin from her written English syntax, this lady was a Russian lady living in central Siberia/Irkutsk. All her photos have been of the same person and numerous enough to not be fewer than four stolen from some website. She is also very attractive. The weird thing is I've seen her post additional profiles with US locations at least twice. That's just great - no, I mean it. There has to be someone better on Match able to become her prince charming. I hope she finds him. I also learned the reason for false US locations by Russian, Ukrainian and eertain other nationalities outside the US is Match blocks members from those nations due to widespread scams being perpetreated within them.
I'm trying to be cautious in this e-mail contact, but I'm also not sure there's any spark of mutual attraction that will happen between us, especially separated by thousands of miles halfway around the world from each other. In the later posted profiles, she also listed her height as 5' 8" and her age as 28. Are those accurate? I guess I understand the reason for deceptive items on her profiles (each of which disappeared within 24 hours from the Match site as typical scammers do), and also saw when visiting Match (since I have a membership until July and don't know if this contact will lead to any romance) her second and third profiles had viewed mine there. Her command of English is less than perfect and my knowledge of Russian is practically nonexistent apart from a few words (and I can't spell in Cyrilic).
My past expereinces with romantic love have been in a word - disappointing. Or maybe apalling is more accurate? How about apocalyptic, dry as a bone, nonexistent (sorry used that one in the last paragraph), hopeless, etc.? I don't know what will happen if anything between me and this Russian lady working as an elementary teacher in Bratsk, and hope this contact doesn't turn into yet another scam artist like others.
And that to me is why (romantic) love is a four-letter word.
I sought out one woman's profile Match suggested to me earlier this month whom I'm still e-mailing daily, but I cannot figure her out entirely yet. Her profile claimed residency in Saint Albans, West Virginia (about 60 miles from where I live - which is the main reason I made first contact) and to be a 5' 10" (I prefer taller over shorter women these days) 29-year-old (not quite robbing the cradle at a 15-year age difference but some would disagree). As reality tunred out, and I suspected foreign origin from her written English syntax, this lady was a Russian lady living in central Siberia/Irkutsk. All her photos have been of the same person and numerous enough to not be fewer than four stolen from some website. She is also very attractive. The weird thing is I've seen her post additional profiles with US locations at least twice. That's just great - no, I mean it. There has to be someone better on Match able to become her prince charming. I hope she finds him. I also learned the reason for false US locations by Russian, Ukrainian and eertain other nationalities outside the US is Match blocks members from those nations due to widespread scams being perpetreated within them.
I'm trying to be cautious in this e-mail contact, but I'm also not sure there's any spark of mutual attraction that will happen between us, especially separated by thousands of miles halfway around the world from each other. In the later posted profiles, she also listed her height as 5' 8" and her age as 28. Are those accurate? I guess I understand the reason for deceptive items on her profiles (each of which disappeared within 24 hours from the Match site as typical scammers do), and also saw when visiting Match (since I have a membership until July and don't know if this contact will lead to any romance) her second and third profiles had viewed mine there. Her command of English is less than perfect and my knowledge of Russian is practically nonexistent apart from a few words (and I can't spell in Cyrilic).
My past expereinces with romantic love have been in a word - disappointing. Or maybe apalling is more accurate? How about apocalyptic, dry as a bone, nonexistent (sorry used that one in the last paragraph), hopeless, etc.? I don't know what will happen if anything between me and this Russian lady working as an elementary teacher in Bratsk, and hope this contact doesn't turn into yet another scam artist like others.
And that to me is why (romantic) love is a four-letter word.