The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results.
That definition can also be applied to Online Dating.
When I first separated from my wife, before being divorce, I dove into the online dating pool. I didn’t drown, and I didn’t swim. Just sort of doggy-paddled my way through. I did meet and date someone for over a year and a half (we should have ended the relationship after six months but that had nothing to do with online dating; just me not knowing how to end a relationship).
This time, however, several family members who achieved success with online dating lured me back into the pool.
Some facts. I’m almost sixty (I know, when did that happened? I’m just as shocked as you are). I was fortysomething last time I attempted online dating (sixty is the new forty). Now, I already gave up on the thought of dating again. Not totally, though. If God, or fate, stepped in and introduced me to the love of my life, I would not ignore the invitation. However, I was adamant that I would not go online and fill out another profile, another “tell me about yourself in a hundred and forty characters” or post pictures of myself, hoping to not show the waddle of my chin, or the shine off the top of my head.
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That hardest part is posting that all-or-nothing-at-all profile picture. Fortunately, I had one in mind.
At a friend’s son’s communion party, I was captured on film (not unlike Bigfoot) in a surprisingly flattering position.
Before I begin to condemn online dating sites, a little about