Here I go Again on My Own

The Intro
I should start this site with a disclaimer: I hate online dating with a passion but my life situation has left me with no choice but to turn to this option.

I don’t have the luck of working around eligible bachelors. My office is filled with women and married men. I only encounter single men when dodging immature boys or dirty old men at the bars and lounges. Chance meetings at the grocery store, sports games or the gym don’t happen anymore for me since I moved to the suburbs. Therefore, no bumping into young eligible bachelors at the store. I don’t have many single friends that get out anymore besides my guy friends and who is going to approach me with them around? It's a rhetorical question but I'll answer it anyway: No One!

Sure I could pay an insane rent or mortgage and move to some trendy part of the city with more of my “kind” but that won’t guarantee the end of my single affair. I’ve lived in the city, it just makes you more alone if there is no one with you, including friends, to take advantage of it all. So until I can build up a new friendship base of Sex In the City single gal pals, location doesn't matter.

So I’m left with online dating. I’ve been winking, IMing and emailing for love for
2 ½ years now ever since a friend introduced me to it. Soon after she found her now husband but said she had been online dating off and on for about three years. Another friend, also in a happy relationship courtesy of online dating, shared the same time span for finding love. So on this unofficial time limit, that means I should find “the one” in about six more months.

Excuse me if I don’t hold my breath.

Now, I try not to be a cynic but naivete isn’t my thing either. Online dating is just another avenue to meeting people but I don’t have expectations that it’s going to lead to anything better than what I’ve already encountered simply because one is paying to meet people. I say this because, as a self appointed online dating expert, I have not met any surprises. Men are men, whether you meet them in Home Depot or online. You can meet the same guys at the gym or on match.com.

I decided to start a blog at the suggestion of my sister who gets a fair amount of entertainment out of dating experiences and suggest I share them with the world. If anything, this will allow me the opportunity to vent and move on and maybe find some folk who can relate to what I've experienced. So here goes ladies and gents, laugh, shake your head, roll your eyes, enjoy!