Internet Dating.....Who Has Done it?!

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I'm terrified of getting involved, as my selfish side can see all the fun stuff I like to do with mates, and the ability to buy myself expensive gadgets and the like taking a hit. Meh. :confused:

Just do it. The value of being able to spend all your money on expensive and pointless crap will pale into significance alongside the awesomeness that is a meaningful relationship.
 
That just it, all my past relationships did get started based on the external similarities we had, music taste, clubbing, those things drew my exes and I together.

This time it's different.

Who we are as people, our views on life, morals, values, eccentricities, the core important things are what we match up identically on. She's odd, positive, cheeky, child-like, honest, caring, and so many other things.

The the icing on the cake is that we actually do like the same external things, like dance music, foods, movies that sorta stuff.

Then the cherry on top is that we both find eachother excessively attractive, lol!

Neither of us can believe that we managed to find eachother, as we both blow eachother away and can't understand why either of us were even single, haha!

Congrats mate, you sound like you are in love :)
 
[TW]Fox;13743545 said:
Just do it. The value of being able to spend all your money on expensive and pointless crap will pale into significance alongside the awesomeness that is a meaningful relationship.

Meh, after the hassle of the last 2 serious relationships, I'm quite happy for it to be not too serious and no-strings at the moment :) Annoying how my family keep giving me grief.... Just because my siblings have settled down and have sprogs, my family seem to think I should be doing the same and I don't see why I should :)

I'm not spending *all* my money on pointless crap, my hobbies make me extremely happy :) I see where you're coming from, though.
 
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After 4 dates?

This made me LOL too... you really don't know someone until you've lived with them :) Good luck though, Krooton (even if you do sound like you've gone hook, line and sinker a bit quick!)
 
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After 4 dates?

Well, our email correspondence was on the epic scale, so after a month, when we met up for the first time, it was like we've known eachother for years. Also it's been 5 'dates' :p

But then she's round on Thursday, and taking me down to the coast for the weekend. Plus we've spending a week together after Easter.

Can't fault us though, I've never in my life met someone who I've had such a connection with, including my ex-fiancée, lol!
 
deleted my account after having no luck at all for a month!

It took me more than a month before i got the hang of it. If you stick at it eventually you will get some kind of success. I met my current girlfriend on there in November and we are still going strong.

My advice is to try and avoid girls who are obviously time wasting or trying to big themselves up with load of favourites. Go for the ones who have actually made a decent effort with there profile and who has something in there profile you can actually talk about.
 
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Neither of us can believe that we managed to find eachother, as we both blow eachother away and can't understand why either of us were even single, haha!

*Sticks finger down his throat* ;)

Yeah, I can tell you I've been with two people like that.
They still ended up changing over time to who they were really like, turned weird and even psychotic. Weird thing, all my GFs have tried to change me whilst I tried to stay the same...*muses*

That's the problem though, you don't actually know them, even a month or two you don't know them. Just reading peoples irrational ramblings on how similar things are, isn't it a reality that people out there do actually like a lot of the same things!

Since the dawn of time it has proved this, yet a lot of every generation of couples make the same mistakes.
It's one of those life mysteries and experience you need to work through yourself.

Some times, it does work out, but to say it so early on is self delusion, desperation and illogical.
Why do people just lose all sense of up and down when they meet a person for the first time?

I may sound bitter, but I'm not, I actually have grown into being cautious in a relationship with these things, not fooling myself into anything I'll regret later on.

Unless I haven't met the right person yet, so far I'm really not into relationships as they are right now, if that's how they all are..screw it I'll stick to being single and having "fun". :p

But, I don't wish anything bad on anyone, I do hope things work out for you!
 
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*Sticks finger down his throat* ;)

Yeah, I can tell you I've been with two people like that.
They still ended up changing over time to who they were really like, turned weird and even psychotic. Weird thing, all my GFs have tried to change me whilst I tried to stay the same...*muses*

:p

I'm cautious too given my long-term history.

1st long-term gf and I drifted apart and split up after a year when our common interests changed.

2nd long-term was a needy, moody cow who would rather be with someone she didn't actually like than be alone. She actually did start to change me over time, and breaking up with her and being myself again was a very liberating experience.

3rd long-term (and ex-fiancee) and I have a great connection, but only actually as friends, and her being lonely and me having just gotten out of a very negative and unhappy relationship clouded our judgement. This is why we were able to split amicably and are still good friends now.

So the once bitten, twice shy adage comes into play, so you won't see me moving in after just a bunch of months or proposing so soon in this instance, as for the first time ever this actually feels completely right, and I won't risk making the same mistakes of the past. ;)

It's a shame you have had a run of bad luck whereby you think woman aren't who they really are at the start of a relationship, and that they change, because not all people, regardless of gender, are like that.

I'm the same person I was 6 years ago, as are all of my long-term friends, hence us still being friends, and being like that and having friends like that make me have faith that other people I will encounter during my life could also be the same.
 
It's a shame you have had a run of bad luck whereby you think woman aren't who they really are at the start of a relationship, and that they change, because not all people, regardless of gender, are like that.

I just want to make sure you didn't think I said it was women aren't who they really are. I meant people generally do that.
 
I just want to make sure you didn't think I said it was women aren't who they really are. I meant people generally do that.

Well no, but due to you being a hetero guy, the only point of reference for that opinion is you experiences with women.

At least in the sense that I can't think of any male friends of mine who aren't 100% themselves in relationships, hehe.
 
It took me more than a month before i got the hang of it. If you stick at it eventually you will get some kind of success. I met my current girlfriend on there in November and we are still going strong.

My advice is to try and avoid girls who are obviously time wasting or trying to big themselves up with load of favourites. Go for the ones who have actually made a decent effort with there profile and who has something in there profile you can actually talk about.
Yeah you may well be right, just got a bit bored tbh. I am still unsure if it would get anywhere though. After all, you haven't seen my face :D
 
At least in the sense that I can't think of any male friends of mine who aren't 100% themselves in relationships, hehe.
Too true, I am myself - but seeing as I adjust my behaviour depending on the social situation, if I'm out with a girl I will also be adjusting my behaviour accordingly as well. I guess the woman would have to shadow me for about 6 months without me realising to realise exactly who I really am as that would show my behaviour with friends family, under pressure etc.
 
I think I've definitely been guilty of not being myself at the start of a relationship in the past, but only because I tried to be what I thought the guy wanted me to be.

Obviously that never worked out for me, so with my current boyfriend, I just decided to be completely myself and if he doesn't like who I am, he's not worth the hassle.

I am amazed and astounded to say that he actually likes the real me - who'da thought it eh?! :D :D
 
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