I realize I am not a typical dater on these online places, but I am floored by people on a regular basis.

- entire "about me" section a list of what they are looking for. "A woman who is honest, caring, open-hearted......."

- A million opening sentences of "I am a great nice guy" or variant therefore. Well, if you don't say yourself. Not for nothing, but that is a useless sentence.

- a string of words of things they like or like to do, no punctuation, just list of words.

So many profiles are so generic. It's really exhausting. Everyone likes the outdoors, travel, laughing. Blah. The word "gentleman" is a total red flag for me.

Just read one "looking for a woman who knows how to treat a man" fuck no dude.

Timelies all!

Realizing just how lucky I am to have found Gary. Don't think I could deal with online dating services.

Jeez, y'all are not making me any more eager to date. Disclaimer: that would take a lot at this point. Point is, I feel more justified in my antipathy to the whole process, I guess. But good luck to those of you out there looking for love or whatever! I really am staggeringly optimistic in my hopes for happiness for people who aren't me.

Not that I can't be happy, but I doubt my happiness involves dating.

This post brought to you by finishing last night's wine while in the bath after a 5k. I'm pretty relaxed.

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Well it is 6:30 at night and the guy that I am supposed to have brunch/lunch with tomorrow has not contacted me with a place, so that may not actually be happening.

Hm.

Bless the neighbor who introduced me to casal Garcia rosé with aperol or Campari. My whole house got cleaned on a bottle.

hivemind - the guy from online dating that I was to have brunch/lunch with today did not message me yesterday at all and sent a message of "Good Morning" at 10:51am. Now, I know I am a planner with a capital P and also crazy, but like that's lame right?

SInce I had not heard any plans from him I stayed up late last night and slept in today, like slept in past that message. Brunch or lunch plans should be made more that like an hour in advance no? especially with someone you have not met before?

Am I being unrealistic or expecting more from people that I should?

No, I agree with you 100%. While there's certainly room in life for a spontaneous "Hey, want to get brunch?" plan, this situation was not that. Because you and the guy had already talked about getting brunch, so plans should be made by the day before. Not a last-minute "So, are we doing this, or what?"