My very first blog post – such pressure! I feel like a good
place to start would be to introduce myself and explain why I decided to start
this whole deal in the first place. My name is Dallas, as you astute minds out
there have probably figured out by now, and I am a single girl living in sunny
southern California.
During the past few “unattached” (the nicer word for single) years, various friends and family have told me that I might want to try online dating since I wasn’t having too much luck meeting a boy in the normal way, i.e. bars and clubs. Actually, maybe I should rephrase. Meeting them was not the problem, it was the shortage of guys who were not a) completely weird and/or crazy, b) sex-crazed miscreants who only wanted to get into my pants, or c) incredibly cocky and full of themselves.
With all of the stigma that goes with dating on the internet, I was hesitant at first. What if I go on a date with someone who ends up being a serial killer or rapist? What if the guy’s pictures are incredibly old and inaccurate in comparison with what he actually looks like? What if I have this amazing connection with someone through the internet but when we meet in person the chemistry is more fizzle than sizzle? These and many more concerns were all running through my head but I ultimately thought, “Why not?” and started an account on a free site. When that didn’t go so well, I decided to do a paid one where they send you people they think you’d be compatible with. Stuck through the three month trial and let it expire… Two years later, in the same boat as I was before, I thought I’d give a different paid site a try, this time on one where I was free to run searches for my various potential soul mates. Another three-month trial and a few new stories later, here I am.
In the following entries, I’ll talk about dates** who did/had all kinds of things: terrible table manners, planning our lives together on the first date, undisclosed personality disorders, strange tattoo explanations, awkward text message rejections, first dates that felt like 3rd degree interrogations, and accusatory e-mails from undesirable suitors… And that’s just the beginning! I’ll probably throw in some posts about my life outside of the dating world from time to time and maybe even some dreams or aspirations here and there, but the main reason I started this was to share my online dating trepidations in hopes that there are girls out there as exasperated with it as I have become.
**As stated in my About Me section, names and some details will be changed to protect the daters.
During the past few “unattached” (the nicer word for single) years, various friends and family have told me that I might want to try online dating since I wasn’t having too much luck meeting a boy in the normal way, i.e. bars and clubs. Actually, maybe I should rephrase. Meeting them was not the problem, it was the shortage of guys who were not a) completely weird and/or crazy, b) sex-crazed miscreants who only wanted to get into my pants, or c) incredibly cocky and full of themselves.
With all of the stigma that goes with dating on the internet, I was hesitant at first. What if I go on a date with someone who ends up being a serial killer or rapist? What if the guy’s pictures are incredibly old and inaccurate in comparison with what he actually looks like? What if I have this amazing connection with someone through the internet but when we meet in person the chemistry is more fizzle than sizzle? These and many more concerns were all running through my head but I ultimately thought, “Why not?” and started an account on a free site. When that didn’t go so well, I decided to do a paid one where they send you people they think you’d be compatible with. Stuck through the three month trial and let it expire… Two years later, in the same boat as I was before, I thought I’d give a different paid site a try, this time on one where I was free to run searches for my various potential soul mates. Another three-month trial and a few new stories later, here I am.
In the following entries, I’ll talk about dates** who did/had all kinds of things: terrible table manners, planning our lives together on the first date, undisclosed personality disorders, strange tattoo explanations, awkward text message rejections, first dates that felt like 3rd degree interrogations, and accusatory e-mails from undesirable suitors… And that’s just the beginning! I’ll probably throw in some posts about my life outside of the dating world from time to time and maybe even some dreams or aspirations here and there, but the main reason I started this was to share my online dating trepidations in hopes that there are girls out there as exasperated with it as I have become.
**As stated in my About Me section, names and some details will be changed to protect the daters.
