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I have decided to give Eharmony another try after being away from it for 4 years. I'm actually surprised that my info was still loaded in their database. Has anyone else out there have any experience (good or bad) with Eharmony or any other online dating service? I had stopped using this 4 years ago because it seemed that they were matching me up with anyone and everyone.
I was on a few onlione dating sites for a while. I met my XH online way back before the internet was anything big outside of the colleges. There were no dating sites then. LOL After he left, I joined a few dating sites and was "matched" with just about anyone and everyone. I went on lots of first dates, very few second dates. I did end up dating and becoming engaged to one man I met on one of the sites. Then he decided he didn't want to share my attention with my DD and DBFF so he dumped me. So I went back on the sites and had a few dates. I chated with a whole host of men. Nice ones and idiot ones. That's how I decided to go on the first dates. I would chat with them for a while. In the end, I began dating one of my BFF's and he is the most wonderful man I have met. He loves me and DD unconditionally and all he asks in return is that I be his BFF. I happily do that and more. I don't know that we will marry, but we have managed to create a nice little family with the three of us.
About a year ago my best friend signed up for Match and within a month met her current bf (who had been on Match for about 2 yrs)...so she convinced me to sign up. Which I did for a year...during which time I 'met' a lot of guys but only dated 2, buth of which ended up being duds. So, when my Match subscription ran out I tried EHarmony and hated it (the whole thing, the set up and the matches).
Cut to about a month ago when my little cousin gets engaged and I feel the need to try Match once again. So far, nothing promising but I'll stick with it for the 6 months. I would say try it, if it works, great! If not at least you explored another option.
I did eHarmony four years ago, and I hated it! I don't like the way that "they" set you up and then "make" you go through a filtering process before you can have much in the way of communication with other people. The people they sent my way were very much duds.
Three and a half years ago one of my friends at work convinced me to check out Match.com. I figured I had nothing to lose so gave it a try. Because anyone can see your profile, I worded mine such that it eliminated most of the "creepy" people from responding. After only a couple of weeks on Match.com, I met my current DBF. I responded to his profile, and we emailed back and forth for about a week before meeting in person. We met for our first date at a restaurant for lunch and immediately hit it off. We have been together for three years now and I am so glad that I took a chance on Match.com.
I met my husband on Eharmony and we were married in May 2009 after dating for 4 years. But I had met alot of others that were duds before meeting my DH.
I'm the dinosaur out of the bunch. My husband and I met through Yahoo! personals when it was free in 1999. I sent out what I was looking for and once I filtered through the married men looking for action, I connected with several nice men. We met at a restaurant and were married in 2000 and just celebrated our 9th anniversary.
I have a friend who met his girlfriend on Cupid.com, they've been together about 4 years now! He DID meet some wackos though before her....heehee...I'd love to tell some of the stories but he would freak
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My DH (wolfhunt) & I met oline, at a free online dating service (make their money from ads) - plentyoffish.com. I tried several I had to pay for, and had no luck - I ended up feeling like they were making money from me NOT finding someone.
Wherever you go, I wish you the best of luck!
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I've never done it (I've been married for 13 years) but I have a college friend who did it and met her husband that way. They got married 2 years ago, and just had a baby girl!
I met my husband on Nerve.com just over 6 years ago and we have been married 6 months. I don't expect a site to find someone for me but its so hard to meet folks outside my circle of friends so it provided that tool and it worked! But man there were some real frogs :-< to kiss first.
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