Online dating may not be ideal, but...

2 of my most serious relationships were with guys I met at bars. I don't think our relationships not working out had a thing to do with where I met them. I met my new boyfriend at a bar. It is still very new - we have only been together a couple of months (just starting to call one another boyfriend/girlfriend). We were both drunk when we met. He asked me to dance (well, he came up to me, took me by the hand, and led me to the dance floor, and I didn't argue because I thought he was cute). I did not go home with him; just hung out with him the rest of that night and did a little kissing and exchanged phone numbers. The odds were totally stacked against me! But, he texted me the very next morning on his way to work, we chatted via text all day long, went out on a date less than a week later, and we have kept in touch every day since then, and see each other a couple times a week. We have spent lots of time together (and plenty of it has been spent sober, so it's not like we just drink together) and are going on a camping trip together in a couple weeks. He is a GREAT guy. I feel lucky to have met him. Heck, any of the derelicts you can meet in a bar probably have internet access, too. LOL

I agree that you have to make a certain amt. of compromise. My best friend is divorced so she asked her brother if he didn't know any single/divorced guys he could introduce her too and his response was "there is a reason these guys are divorced." I also have a cousin who is a 40 yr old widow. She hasn't really dated since her DH died a few years ago, but someone she knew wanted to fix her up w/ this divorced guy. My aunt was telling me this and my cousin wanted to know if he had received an annulment, since we are Catholic (however, her sister married a divorced guy by a Protestant minister). Even her mom was like "don't be so picky."

Oh my! I can't imagine why you wouldn't want to go golfing with him. lol