Blog About Dating

Your friends have decided to use the old-school way of meeting potential mates. They are fascinated with the notion of “arranged marriages” which is still a custom in the “old country”. You will be the guinea pig, since you are the oldest of your buddies. They are concerned with your single status and have talked you into accepting some blind dates they have set up for you.

You arrive to your first blind date. Your friend told you that Jack is a great catch, and “kind of cute”. You are at the restaurant door and a big guy walks over to you. He introduces himself to you as “Jack”. The girls did not tell you that Jack looks like Baby Huey. You both go back to the table where Jack had been waiting for you.

As you begin talking, you realize that Jack knows the weekly TV schedule verbatim. You haven’t sat through a movie in months because you run marathons and volunteer at the local food bank. He says, “Volunteering is a waste of time because you can’t help those people, anyway.

You are so bored you begin thinking of how you could make as polite an exit as possible. Jack is a sweet guy and you two could be friends but you really don’t see thing going much beyond friendship. He seems to be very interested in you though, and you are happy that at least guys still find you attractive.

Now imagine a date with someone you met through internet dating and have been chatting online with and exchanging emails with for quite some time.

Many on-line services will not only allow you to see a picture, exchange emails and converse over the phone with someone where there is mutual interest, but with some, you can also see a video of your potential friend. Before you meet in person, you have been talking for a while, you know each other, and have now both decided to take the next logical step, a physical meeting.

Before you meet you already know that, he is a health and fitness nut and so are you. He is a family guy and loves children and so do you. He wants to one day have a family of his own, and so do you. You cannot believe, once the date is over, where all the time went.

There is a big difference between a well-intentioned friend setting you up and choosing a man for yourself who shares your interests and tastes, isn’t there?

Which choice will you make?

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