After lurking on some other singles forums for a few months, I can understand why so many singles complain that it's hard to meet other singles.

For one thing, there's the problem of their attitude... these people are almost all in their late 40s into their 60s, but they have the attitudes of 12-year olds as far as how to handle a relationship maturely. They all treat the search for the right person as a sort of game which shouldn't be taken seriously at all.

On top of that, they've been online so long that they've formed their own little cliques, and they don't welcome outsiders who are serious about relationships. They behave like trolls, but they aren't really trolls because they all know each other and they're all in their little game together.

What's more, almost all of them live in little hick towns which are so small I bet I wouldn't be able to find them in any atlas... yet they all seen to be slyly hinting, "come and get me!" Go a thousand miles to meet some game-player who's old enough to be my aunt? I don't think so.

In view of that, I think the chance that those people will actually meet someone, let alone get happily married, is pretty bleak.

Well said as usual , Marty. You are so right about the cliches and people who have made 'friends for life' even though they will never meet ehses people

I wish that computers were expensive again . Now, anyone with a few hundred dollars can go to Walmart and get a junk computer and get online and post endless crap.

Life was so much better before the internet.

There are also hookup forums, aka booty call boards... it's pretty funny to read through these, and see how many of their members kick themselves every time they get emotionally attached to their latest f-buddy. I have about as much respect for sex addicts as I do for online dating services, which is to say about zero.

I won't tell anyone what I've been working on lately, but I will say it is not costing much money at all, and once I do it, just watch... all the ripoff dating services will try to get into the act and do it too (for a few thousand bucks, of course).