Your Parent is Online Dating
- Thursday, September 10 2009 @ 08:05 am
- Contributed by: Editor
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I read a story recently about a 55 year old divorcee who ran into an unexpected obstacle when she decided to try online dating. It was her daughter. She had told her that her main worry was safety and the type of men she may meet online. I think her daughter's real problem is that her mom wants to date again. Safety concerns of meeting people from dating sites are important, but in reality are not much different than meeting other people at bars or singles events. You just have to use common sense.
I went through a similar experience a while ago myself when one of my parents decided to get back into the dating game. Most of my mom's friends are happily married which made it hard for her to meet someone new and single through them. She also lived out in the country which further distanced herself from other singles. While it was a little weird for me to have one of my parents wanting to date again I knew the most obvious solution for her was online dating. Dating sites make it easy for you to scope out who is available close by, while you remain anonymous until you want to take the plunge. I recommended a few sites to my mom, told her what was involved and how things worked, and she was off and online dating.
She had success in the first 2 weeks of her online experience. She went on a date with the man who she is still together with, almost 3 years later. While it takes the average online dater 3 months to meet Mr. or Miss. Right, a large part of my mom's success was due to the time and effort she put into writing her dating profile. I gave her a few important tips about writing a dating profile and while I told her I didn't want to get too involved in the whole process (as I had mentioned, it was still a little weird for me), I told her it was important to review the profile with a few of her closest friends during her rewrite sessions so she could get an outsiders perspective.
If you are 50 and over and are thinking about trying online dating, you are not alone. Your age group is reported to be the fastest growing segment over the last few years by many of the major dating sites like Match.com (see Review) and eHarmony (see Review). For dating sites which specialize in matching older singles, take a look at our Dating Over 50 category.
I went through a similar experience a while ago myself when one of my parents decided to get back into the dating game. Most of my mom's friends are happily married which made it hard for her to meet someone new and single through them. She also lived out in the country which further distanced herself from other singles. While it was a little weird for me to have one of my parents wanting to date again I knew the most obvious solution for her was online dating. Dating sites make it easy for you to scope out who is available close by, while you remain anonymous until you want to take the plunge. I recommended a few sites to my mom, told her what was involved and how things worked, and she was off and online dating.
She had success in the first 2 weeks of her online experience. She went on a date with the man who she is still together with, almost 3 years later. While it takes the average online dater 3 months to meet Mr. or Miss. Right, a large part of my mom's success was due to the time and effort she put into writing her dating profile. I gave her a few important tips about writing a dating profile and while I told her I didn't want to get too involved in the whole process (as I had mentioned, it was still a little weird for me), I told her it was important to review the profile with a few of her closest friends during her rewrite sessions so she could get an outsiders perspective.
If you are 50 and over and are thinking about trying online dating, you are not alone. Your age group is reported to be the fastest growing segment over the last few years by many of the major dating sites like Match.com (see Review) and eHarmony (see Review). For dating sites which specialize in matching older singles, take a look at our Dating Over 50 category.
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