Best experience?

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Registered: 10-12-2003
Best experience?
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Wed, 03-30-2005 - 9:13pm
I'm always hearing about the bad OLD experiences... Anyone care to share their good ones? Tell me the best of your best, please! :)

 

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Registered: 03-17-2005
Wed, 03-30-2005 - 9:34pm

Gary, Mike, Barry.

Gary from Dreammates.com and the other two from babeonhd. The best first dates ever and all were short term relationships. Gary and I would still be together if Mike hadn't been in the way, I believe. Long story. Instant chemistry with all of them.

The ironic thing is that I got in a bad ATV accident with Gary (we were riding separately and I was playin' catch up) and I have visible scars from it. However, it is Mike that I have the deepest scar from yet you can't see it.

Great topic, BC. And I don't remember if I welcomed you to the board or not so WELCOME!!

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Registered: 10-12-2003
Wed, 03-30-2005 - 9:48pm
Thanks luv, on all accounts. A gal who enjoys Pinot Grigio as much as me and loves HDs as much as my brother must be cool! *big smile*

 

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Wed, 03-30-2005 - 9:58pm

Megan... it was short (4 months) but enjoyable. She ended back with her ex-husband.

There have been successes here. I remember FunAt40 and ICinderella and Iteach and NGOL and TinyCaschew saying they hooked up. I probably missed someone.

The thing is most stories WILL be failures.

Online Dating parallels Real Life meets.

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Registered: 10-12-2003
Wed, 03-30-2005 - 10:08pm
I hear ya... but I wanna hear the positives! Sometimes we get so fixed on the negatives that we forget about the good stories! :)

 

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Registered: 06-14-2004
Wed, 03-30-2005 - 10:29pm

Well, I'm dating a wonderful guy I met in match 3 months ago. I couldn't ask for anything better!

My coworker just got married last October to a guy she met in match. Her daughter was the one who convinced her to join. They're both in their 40's and were divorced, I'm 25 and single, so it's also a good difference of age.

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Registered: 03-18-2005
Wed, 03-30-2005 - 11:36pm

It depends on how you determine success? I’ve had good and bad experiences with OLD.

 
 
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Registered: 11-18-2003
Thu, 03-31-2005 - 6:38pm

Okay, I haven't had any relationships via OLD but I can still find the positive.



  • OLD has enabled me to date. Period. Without OLD I would have no dates at all.

  • OLD has enabled me to meet people I'd never meet in real life.

  • It has enabled me to practice my social/dating skills.

  • I have visited new bars and restaurants.

  • I got to go bowling - something I love but hadn't done in years b/c I can't find anyone else who enjoys it.

  • I have gotten out of the house more than I would have without OLD.

  • It has - at times -

 

 

 

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Registered: 05-22-2003
Thu, 03-31-2005 - 6:48pm

Well, I haven't had any fantasic experiences but I have had a couple of good ones. I dated one guy 4 times after writing for a couple of months - no chemistry there for me but we have gone on to be great friends - he is a super guy (always nice to make new friend). Also, I have recently been writing a guy for about 6 or 7 weeks now; met once for coffee; talked on the phone 9 or 10 times now (long conversations - no silences which is fantastic) and we are going out this weekend for a date. I'm pretty hopeful about this one but only time will tell.

mom of 2

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Registered: 10-26-2004
Thu, 03-31-2005 - 9:12pm

HI BK,

First, let me say that the 'losses' are actually "Wins", if you learned anything from them! Ok, sometimes I wish that things did not have to SO suck for you to learn a lesson, but I DO see where the value is, in the end! :)

Right now would be the best I have found, in 8 months of OLD. Tall Man wrote to me over a month ago and we emailed, talked then he set up a date. He is the one who saw me at a restaurant, on a date, and I did not see him, but he really liked the way I looked. Then,,,cue Jaws music again....he and his recent ex began talking-she was calling drunk and crying and hit the Heavy Guilt Button, so he said he felt it was fair to go back and be sure that was over and Not put me in the middle. OH no....Cupcakes do not DO middles, we only Do creme fillings, thank you very much! I was a lady and said I was sad not to meet him, but he knew how to reach me, if he wanted to, and I hoped for the best, for him, whatever that may be.

A month later, he calls back and that had been done and was over., and he SO hoped I could go to dinner with him. I said I was dating 2 men, which was true, but he could ask...so he did! We have had a great time this past two weeks; fun/romantic/interesting dinners,a play, and a concert-- and I even met his boss at that one. All good...but I am a 'so far so good' OLD girl now. He has to go out of town on business next week, all week, and has asked me to come there for 3 days, and I am going with a smile on my face.

Day by day, but this is the most "into me" anyone has felt and I am not at all flexed or worried...gee, is THIS how it feels? Hey, the Roadrunner could drop that anvil tommorrow...but I have had fun...all I can do is hope for the best...'nuff said!

Truly,
Cupcake

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Registered: 06-06-2003
Thu, 03-31-2005 - 9:14pm

One of the first guys I met online lives in LA, and I'm in Oregon. We hit it off really well, and were talking on the phone several nights a week. Same church, same everything! It was so natural. If we'd been in the same state, we'd have met. Actually, he talked about flying up so we could meet.

But, he bailed when I made one request. He always wanted to talk or IM at about 9:30 in the evening, and that's when I go to bed... I'm up at 5am. So, I told him it was hard for me to talk that late, and why. I said that I hoped we could talk earlier, like 8pm.

He stopped calling entirely.

So... even though it ended funky, while it lasted, it was great.

Barb

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