Matchmaker, stick a fork in me I'm DONE!

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Registered: 10-17-2002
Matchmaker, stick a fork in me I'm DONE!
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Thu, 04-21-2005 - 5:19pm
I had become a non-paying member on Matchmaker and I thought (I KNOW I did) made my profile invisible because I got either weirdos or perverts on that site. Well, I went out there just to see if Mr. Clingon had contacted me through the site (he did a couple weeks ago and I didn't email back). Well, he hadn't but a 70 year-old whose wife "is no longer interested in physical and emotional intimacy" with him did. I read the lengthy profile with my mouth hanging open - WTF? :-) When I get home tonight, I am not just hiding the profile on MM, I am deleting!

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Registered: 01-12-2005
Sat, 04-23-2005 - 11:26am

vexer....


It wasn't cl/pianoguy's intention to upset you....SO MY SINCEREST APOLOGIES IF I HAVE?

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Registered: 10-17-2002
Sat, 04-23-2005 - 11:45am

That's fine. I must have misunderstood because I did think you were saying I was cruel for saying that. As for me, I have two very vital, active parents that are coming up on 60 and are awesome! My dad runs or bikes nearly every day, they go on trips all over the country and the Caribbean, they go to Jimmy Buffett concerts, football games and all kinds of fun stuff. I am not at all saying that older people are in any way deficient or that they can't function as productive members of society. I had a grandmother who lived on her own until she was 87 and a stroke forced her into an assisted living community - I could see how much that bothered her because she had always been so independent. It is just a personal view that I don't want to date someone that much older than me.

It is frustrating and I know that I am probably too picky on OLD, but that is just the way it has come down. The guy I have just started seeing is a RL meet. It is nice that the pressure of the OLD meet was never there. We knew each other as friends first. If it goes somewhere, OK. If not, OK. OLD is a funny way to meet people. It hasn't been a bad experience, but not really a great one either. It has at least gotten me out there more and in some ways made me more confident that people do find me attractive.

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Registered: 06-28-2004
Sat, 04-23-2005 - 1:35pm

Yup...ya got that one right! Just because it works for some, does not mean that it is going to work for all. But after a year...not even a date!!!! It's a good thing that I have good friends who remind me that when someone doesn't respond to you or whatever, they don't know you. Plus, I had some success with Match and American Singles...however, more often than not, the matches did not work out for me. I do believe that I wasn't in the right frame of mind to really be out there dating. For a few months I just hung out with a "friend"; but that has since left me longing for a "real" relationship. So I am working on other things in my life at this point in time.

Who knows, maybe after taking a breather for a couple of months I will unexpectedly find the "Love of my Life".

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