I pretty much have... almost. I've met many wonderful ladies online, so I know it works. Unfortunately, the term wonderful is used to express the spirit of the ladies I've met not the fireworks... Actually the sparklers that went off.

This is not to say that tomorrow might not be the day where I meet a lady online who knocks me off my feet when I meet her. It could very well happen.

Perhaps I'm just surrendering to "what will be will be" without trying so hard or hopeing too much anymore.

My worse experience with online dating was that pictures were not accurate. That ages were not accurate, that habits such as drinking and smoking also weren't. Not that I minded the drinking and smoking, as I did.... just that I like the truth up front, then as we go along, it all takes shape into something great, with all the pros and the cons...

Yada Yada Yada.

Yes, I have given them up. Since the days when Yahoo Personals was free, most of them have become shameless panderers and rip-offs. Ads and profiles stay online when the people have long gone. You can waste a lot of time writing nice letters of introductions to people who for all intents and purposes don't exist. I made some great friends when Yahoo was free, and hardly anything when it became pay. The sites that are more sexually-themed are even worse...if you are a man.

I much prefer social networking sites where dating is not the prime objective. They provides a much nicer way to meet people based on common interests and the quality of communication.

Meeting online is still a great option, but paying a dating service isn't, in my experience.

I think we can't give up. Maybe re-group.Take time off. Take up another path. But unless you can and many of us can be alone with friends or remaining family.I for one gave up for a very long time not just on dating but on life.I live like I was dead. I wanted to be dead. But things happened because it wasn't my time. Then I found a passion. A friend who knew what good acting was. Another friend who knew how to heal my damaged soul. Between the two and others I got stronger inside and out. I have a fire in me. That lights me up and makes me chase the acting when the chances are I will never earn a living at it. But it has given me confidence to appreciate who I am. To seek to complete myself. My life. To find a partner. Maybe only for now or for next month or next year or ? But I search and I encourage others to do the same.

It's not so much a matter of giving up, as it is refusing to continue to ignore reality. I have met many men from online sites, but have never had one of them interested in developing anything more meaningful than immediate sex. quite dissappointing. I suppose you could say I no longer believe.

Well, ok, there was that one who didn't want to be touched. Have no idea what he was looking for.

Me either but it might have been a good online story had you found out!

I guess you never met me online :) I am an intimacy junkie. I like to get to know a person from the inside out. Granted that one of my favorite topics to discuss is sexuality from a psychological viewpoint, sharing notes on what the experience has meant to us over the years. But I am a guy who really enjoys communicating on many levels.

It has been my experience that many people do not like to talk intimately about themselves, what they believe in, what they feel about things, so finding a site like this has been a real blessing.

yes, I must have been lax, clearly we never met. ;) there is always that one that slips through the cracks.