Have you ever tried them? I moved to a new state in December. My boyfriend stayed back home and I haven't spoken to him in 2 months, it's pretty much over. I'm lonely, bored, and don't know how or where to meet new friends. Anyone have any experience or can just offer some ideas?

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A friend of mine at work tried to set me up with a friend of hers. We started emailing, but I wan't ready to date. He is now seriously dating a girl that he met on eHarmony! I heard they were getting married. I don't know if its; that they are so compatible, or if by the time you join up with such a site, you are so ready to met someone you just hop into it! This isn't the first time that I've heard of it! Who knows. Maybe one day I'll be there!

2 of my sisters have done the online dating sites thing. If you go into it looking for some entertainment then I think you'll do allright. They have met for coffee and then proceeded with phone calls and other safe dates. In both of their cases, they haven't found the love of their lives, but they're meeting some decent guys as well as some real characters. They're both in their 50's so they're not really looking for anything long term or serious now. Just a distraction from their everyday boring humdrum lives. Just be careful to keep your personal information unavailable until you know who you're dealing with.

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I was going to say that my mom (in her 60's) has mainly met a bunch of kooky men. It might honestly be what she looks for...(and she is a little bit odd herself! LOL)... Hooking up with quirky elderly men almost seems a pattern with her in real life as well!!!

It seems that the men of her age group that don't mind a woman of her age group are more interested in companionship vs. anything longterm or that could potentially take a lot of work. It seems that most men of her age are looking for younger women (who are looking for sugar daddies???)???

I know that I'm generalizing but in my mom's case, she has certainly hit a lot of dead ends and I am always concerned about her safety! She takes a lot of risks that I don't think are good for a woman of her age.

I would think that there is an age group that this could work well for... say 20's on up to late 40's -- but I'm not sure since I've never done it myself.

My mil used eharmony and has now been married for 2 1/2 years to a man she met through them. They are a perfect match for each other. My fil passed away 8 years ago and she was lonely so decided to give it a try. They both are Christian and very involved in church activities, they both love to sing and they both love to travel. They also compliment each other well. He loves to dote on her and she loves to be doted on! He's very handy around the house and she isn't. They both were widowed after long marriages.

They hit it off right away and were actually engaged before we had a chance to meet him. It was actually a bit of deju vu because it was exactly like dh and I. We got engaged the day after Thanksgiving 2 months after we started dating and mil got engaged on Thanksgiving 2 months after they started dating. Dh and I got married 5 months later and mil got married 3 months later. We both had planned later wedding dates but decided to move them up. She moved hers up so they could be married on 03/04/05! She thought that would be a cool date to be married on. My reason was not nearly as romantic, dh was graduating college and took a job out of state and I wanted to be married before we moved so we moved the wedding up a year.

Dh and I have been married for 17 years now. So hopefully they'll continue to follow in our footsteps and have a long happy marriage.

I would highly recommend eharmony. I've heard good things about them besides mil's experience.

Jenn

Glad your MIL had a great Eharm experience Jenn, mine has been completely different. First time around, 3 months, 1 'date' - and he was from 50 miles away. Nothing in our personalities meshed. Second time brought me a guy who turned out to be a convicted felon and an AA member who was off the wagon. Simple google search brought it all up. Friend talked me into signing up again - sub expires on the 19th - 1 date again this time - he's 10 years older and took 6 weeks of emails before we went out for 2 hours. Won't be meeting again. Maybe it's the area I'm in or my age? Not sure, but I'm not an eharm fan and that 'we match the most important parts of your personality' never worked for me...

I've tried match - lots of separated men on there. Got my heart semi-broke last year, but life goes on. What I've noticed is that the same people are there year after year.

My Mom posts on Yahoo something I think, it's free. She does get some weirdos though, although like attracts like, so I don't know what the problem is?


Good luck, Mr. Right will find you somehow, just be on the lookout for him.

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My neighbor and her DH met on eHarmony - when they married last year, eHarmony sent them a nice little wedding gift - I think it was a tiny crystal bowl from Tiffany's. They seem very happy!

However, I thought I'd throw in my interesting little experience. I found that I met men most easily at a beginner karate class I took for fun! I was one of 3 females in the class - the other 15 were men. In the space of only a few months, four of the men asked me out! I didn't take any of them up on it, as I had been dating my (now) DH for a few months by then. I never felt so popular! I would recommend taking up a martial art class to anyone wishing to meet men.

Good luck with your quest! Let us know how things go-- however you choose!

I met my dh on love@aol (not even sure if they still have this). We emailed a lot at first then went to talking on the phone. I wasn't even sure I wanted to date yet as I was going through a divorce at the time. I was just sort of browsing and then stumbled across his ad, which caught my eye. We've been married 10 yrs this past june and couldn't be happier. I think getting to know him by email first was what helped us. We realized how much we liked each other before we ever even saw one another. The best thing is my 5 kids and his two kids meshed right away. It took our neighbors forever to figure out which was his or mine. Of course we always got a lot of looks when we went out with all of our kids. Back then they were 4,5,6,7,8,9, and 13. Now they are 14,15,16,17,18,19, and 23.

Just wanted to chime in that I met my husband on Yahoo Personals We've been married for 6 years now and I am still in love with him as ever! So, it's possible

Crystal

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Hi,
plentyoffish.com is a free dating website.
If you are looking to meet some friends (even female), you can try out Yahoo groups. I moved to a new state a few years ago and I didn't know anyone either. I typed "my city" into Yahoo groups and joined a few social activity groups. It got me out of the house and meeting new freinds. Hope that helps. You could also try craigslist.com and look under activity groups etc (in the upper left hand column). It's hard having to start all over, I know. Good luck

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What a great idea!

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