Today’s post is a guest post from Lily, our new divorcee who’s re-learning to date.

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Welcome to the era of online dating. For those of you who are not single and haven’t been for awhile, you will not be able to even slightly grasp how the world of dating has changed, for those single ladies (and gents) reading this you are probably already laughing.

Between facebook, plenty of fish and jdate I can barely keep up with all the accounts I need to check, forget about trying to remember who I spoke to when and about what. But that’s not even the issue, if my biggest problem was meeting too many great people, well this post would be as exciting as watching your friends wedding video! I can deal with the nice people, and the decent conversations that come up every once in awhile but wow are there some weirdo’s out there.

My first forage back into the dating world happened about 3 ½ months after my split. Nervous as anything, but figured I needed to get back in the game. Nice guy, not for me, but a nice intro back into the world of dating and a fabulous first introduction to the world of online dating. Should have stopped while I was ahead…spent about an hour chatting with the great guy one night, give him my email address, he sends a lovely email, I respond. That’s it, end of the story, nothing back (we’ll touch on why I think this happened in another post!). Then there is the complete stranger I was set up with, who decides (prior to ever meeting me) that I am too newly separated to be dating. I am so lucky to have strangers in my life who are capable of making decisions for me! Oh did I mention he chose to pass on this worldly advice via facebook? And then there is the influx of sweet messages, feel free to interpret

• hi:)Your is very nice beam,and I like to meet you…your lifestyle of the great.my name is “sam”… how are you? (please feel free to translate this one!)

• I really like your fantastic smile? (it’s a question?)

And my ultimate favourite:
him:
me: well I don’t respond because is not words.
him: ?
me: well again I don’t respond because there are no words in front of the question mark.
him: indecisive or technical difficulties?
me: neither, a smiley face and a question mark do not constitute a conversation.

What ever happened to “hello”?

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Like this? Check out Lily’s other posts

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