Let's pretend online dating doesn't exist. Woah! There goes the internet. This getting pretty tricky. I'm just kidding with you.
But seriously, let's think. Rather than online dating, how would you like to meet a person?
Personally, I'd like to meet someone either through a friend who knows someone they think I could be interested in and gets in connected, or at something like a volunteering activity or at a museum.
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
How to quit online dating: part 1 of 1
Alright, well your zillionth online dating interaction was, how do I say this kindly? A disappointment.
It's the tenth date you've been on, but who's counting? The third site you've tried for the fourth time, but who's paying attention? Or, who's to ask?
He or She was awful. Well not really awful, just not your type. Your 'type' doesn't send dick pics after 'hi'. They send it after 'hi, you're cute. You're cute too.' Duh! Mutual acknowledgement of mutual interest shows respect and future partnership prospects.
Free for all dick pics shows a break in model behavior only recently made public all the human race to witness online. previously preserved for rabbits and bananas (do rabbits eat bananas? Huh. Anyways, not what I meant.). Incredible that some guy or robot from online or the Planet of Online Dating doesn't seem to know that. It's not working!
Well, whatever your flimsy belief is for dating chivalry and courtesy in the online dating environment- it has been tested. It has been sorely tested. It has been tested severely. That's why you're here. You, like so many others have
been plunged down a hole surrounded, in one iPhone sitting, by the faces of more women/men than you could ever date in your entire life. Unless that is, you are on the path to enlightenment and immortality.
In which case, you likely agree and have come to the same conclusion as I have, which is: this online dating must stop.
Wait, what do you mean, stop? What about all the candidates, the possible ones to look into?
See what you just did there? You superimposed all the hopefulness of online dating onto the stark reality of whatever your online dating experience has been that made you click on this site.
So do it! Be brave, be strong, be valiant in your actions to create a better life for yourself.
A life where you, like me, are single as **** and also online datingprofile-less as a 1970's ridgemont high schooler.
That stuff I wrote above- be brave, be strong. I was kidding. You don't need any of that. You do need to be able to click down with your finger. But I think you can do that.
What you need is to go into your profile now, complete with knowing that this hasn't been working out well, and go ahead and delete that profile and nice nickname that you spent more time on than you'd care to share to what you hoped would turn into the gf or bf of your dreams.
You just quit it. You're done. Get on with your life.
You'll miss it, sure. The anticipation, like smelling a good dinner cooking, right in front of your eyes.
Or you won't. Whatever.
Either way. You aren't missing out. No, not because I'm hopeless and I don't think that there's a hidden gem on there for you, if only. No, that's not why. You aren't missing out because you're NOT ON IT anymore. You're done. You're no longer a part of the online dating world. You can't be missing out on it any more than I'm missing out on not being in Hawaii on a beach with Hawaiian hula dancers playing in front of me. Or my missing out on having a date with someone I saw online, except cancelling the imaginary date because they never wrote back.
Do you get it? Those things aren't actually happening. If you delete your profile and remove yourself from online dating, you aren't missing out. You just ARE.
You got here for a reason, which was to quit online dating. It's habit and you've been doing it awhile, and like any good addiction it seems to take up a lot of mental and perhaps physical energy. You aren't sure if you can quit it! I mean, you do really want a girlfriend/boyfriend/sex toy.
Well, I'm here to tell you that you can quit online dating, if you want to.
Here's how.
Delete your profile.
Good. Now, if you want to be part of an online community where people with all the same hopes and frustrations as you can connect and talk about stuff other than failing at online dating ( because you have can't win or fail at online dating if like me, you aren't a part of it), you are welcome to join in below.
Post a comment below with this prompt:
A) The date you deleted your profiles and quit online dating
B) How many years you had been online dating
C) How many dates you had gone on
D) The biggest things that come to mind when you think of online dating
Good job. You did it! Amazing!
Now, go make yourself a sandwich.
Do you get it? Those things aren't actually happening. If you delete your profile and remove yourself from online dating, you aren't missing out. You just ARE.
You got here for a reason, which was to quit online dating. It's habit and you've been doing it awhile, and like any good addiction it seems to take up a lot of mental and perhaps physical energy. You aren't sure if you can quit it! I mean, you do really want a girlfriend/boyfriend/sex toy.
Well, I'm here to tell you that you can quit online dating, if you want to.
Here's how.
Delete your profile.
Good. Now, if you want to be part of an online community where people with all the same hopes and frustrations as you can connect and talk about stuff other than failing at online dating ( because you have can't win or fail at online dating if like me, you aren't a part of it), you are welcome to join in below.
Post a comment below with this prompt:
A) The date you deleted your profiles and quit online dating
B) How many years you had been online dating
C) How many dates you had gone on
D) The biggest things that come to mind when you think of online dating
Good job. You did it! Amazing!
Now, go make yourself a sandwich.
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