Online dating has potential.
It has taken me a while to really accept and believe that. The stigmas of lonely and desperate and computer nerd and……where what ran through my head for years when I heard that someone was involved in an online relationship. It was hard to break that way of thinking even after my dad met and married someone he met on the internet.
My parents got a divorce around the same time that I was heading into high school. After some time had passed my dad began going out on dates on the weekends. It was a little weird when we both headed out the door on a date some Friday nights, but my siblings and I took it pretty much in stride. He went on dates with several local people before had joined an online dating site. His online relationships were a little harder to understand and my brothers and sisters and I were septics. He became really serious with one woman (who is now my step-mom) and it became apparent that online relationship really atually do have potential to lead somewhere.
My dad had been down to see her several times and they were already engaged by the time she came up from the states and I met her for the first time. My 5 year old nephew, armed with ebay-based knowledge, asked me if my stepmom was coming in the mail that day. He’d seen and heard his parents order things of the internet and receive them in the mail shortly after and was under the impression that anything could be ordered off the internet!
The concept of it all was a little foreign to me as well. It was a little while after they were married that I finally began to see that good strong and healthy relationships could form online. My Dad and my step mom are happier than ever today and it is neat to see how two people living so far away from each other were able to cover the distance via the internet. Since then I’ve seen a few of my friends develop relationships online. Some of them have worked out and some haven’t, but, in my opinion, on line dating has potential.
People who move consistently or cover shift work might find it difficult to arrange time for dating and the internet accommodates their lifestyles. It opens up the dating field and allows people to meet lots of other individuals outside of work or school. And people are able to make emotional connections quickly on the internet. I didn’t meet my husband over the internet, but more and more people do. It is something to be considered.
